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Is it possible to work during a Render?

DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,404
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I know Rendering is very system intensive but I just thought I would see if anyone has had any success in doing both at once. Exporting saved scenese to an external hard drive and rendering on a different computer maybe? Just cuious.

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  • AtiAti Posts: 9,143

    What do you mean by "work"? In Daz Studio? If you are not using an external renderer, then as far as I know, you will not be able to work in Daz Studio while rendering. You can still do almost anything else on your computer though.

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,251
    parkerglynn79 said:

    I know Rendering is very system intensive but I just thought I would see if anyone has had any success in doing both at once. Exporting saved scenese to an external hard drive and rendering on a different computer maybe? Just cuious.

    yes, you can do this a number of ways, external drive, NAS, or sharing content on a computer.

    Having the same content on another computer, export the scene (or exclusive to 3Delight export an .RIB), load on the other computer (or use external 3Delight rendering on same machine or another)

    limiting the cores used by a rendering process using the OS or using the GUI of an external rendering engine.

  • tristanthorne1997tristanthorne1997 Posts: 241

    I've been able to load a second instance of Daz and work on scenes there while I wait for the first instance to finish rendering.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    tristanthorne1997 said:

    I've been able to load a second instance of Daz and work on scenes there while I wait for the first instance to finish rendering.

    That's not a good practice...both instances will share the same temp folder and if you close it or it crashes, the second instance can impact the ongoing render in the first.

  • NovicaNovica Posts: 23,905
    edited November 2015

    Yep, having the studio on two differenet computers is the safest way, because as mentioned, it can strain one computer to the crash point when two studios are open. On my computer, it would slow it down so much anyway that I never wanted to do two at once. 

    Do you know about the Batch Render product that allows you to setup your scenes, que them, and they render one after another? Great for when you're sleeping smiley Get it now for $8.98 ! It's easy to use too, works directly in your studio. Select what you want to render, where to render it to, the format (png, etc) and you're good to go.

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  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,404

    Uhhh NO! I did not know about that product! That is awesome!! My only concern (because I'm not a big computer whiz) is that my computer will fry from making the processor(i3Core/4GBRAM) work that hard for an extended time. It's already kinda loud as it is rendering one. Anyone know anything about that? Can it take it or is that a legit concern?

    Thanks!

  • AJ2112AJ2112 Posts: 1,416

    What's loud ? fan's, hdd, Vcard fan ? 

  • RedzRedz Posts: 1,459

    I guess the batch render product is 3delight only? Or would it work for iray?

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Yes, it's a 3Delight only.   There is no stand alone Iray, so that route is a bit pointless, as the batch rendering relies on the standalone 3Delight.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,392
    Redz said:

    I guess the batch render product is 3delight only? Or would it work for iray?

    I've used this product since it was first released.  It will work with Iray.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • tristanthorne1997tristanthorne1997 Posts: 241

    MJC, thanks for the advice - i didn't know I shouldn't have two instances of Daz running at once on the same computer. 

    As for the Batch Render product, there are conflicting messages above. Can we get Daz to weigh in on whether it works with IRAY? 

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    It's doable...just not advisable.  I've messed up more than one item I was working on because I forget to save the preset before closing out the second instance.  So I had to go back and start the preset over. 

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