Stopping an Iray Render?

Deke

So it's pretty clear that Iray will take it's sweet time processing the last 10% of a render. I often can't see any difference in those little final changes. Is there a way to stop the render but keep that 90% rendered image? That would be a big help with animation.

evilded777

Just use the cancel button on the render process window, NOT the render window itself... I guess that all depends on if you are rendering to a new window or not. But I am pretty sure if you cancel at the render process window you will be just fine.

Deke

Is there a setting to accomplish that with each frame when rendering an image sequence?

The Blurst of Times

You can tell Iray to stop at 90%, as I recall.

In the Render Settings menus...
Progressive Rendering --> Completion -->
Rendering Converged Ratio --> 90%

That should tell Iray to go no further.

The Blurst of Times

Also (in case you were not aware), should you stop a render in progress, you can still retrieve your image.
I do that all the time for testing changes.

I think this is the default directory on a Windows machine:

C:\Users\(YOUR USER NAME HERE)\AppData\Roaming\DAZ 3D\Studio4 Public Build\temp\render

There should be a r.png file (or whatever image extension your default is), and that's where you halted render lives. Just copy/move the file out of there because future renders will also use that space.

Richard Haseltine

As long as you cancel via the progress bar, not the render window, the render will not close. According to the changelog

Render window no longer closes on cancel; cancel becomes close upon canceling

(for 4.8.0.11)

Neoblay

Ugh, i just hit CANCEL on my progress bar window and it closed the render window.... grr...It had been rendereing for over a day...

Neoblay

nope, found it. it secretly drops the render behind the main Studio window... sneaky sneaky