<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Hi Daniel,<div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span></span><div id="yiv1754667691"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Been thinking about this further, does the process function by constantly writing incremental samples data into the package contained on the hard drive?</span></div><div><span>If not, what would happen in the event of a power disruption? would that then require rendering to begin again?</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thank you,</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>David Black<br></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,
helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com
<zanqdo@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> David <db4tech@yahoo.co.uk>; bf-cycles@blender.org<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 27 October 2011, 12:32<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bf-cycles] Ideas<br></font><br>Simpler solution to close by mistake or crash is not saving a flat png<br>but a package with the samples data like luxrender does, so you can<br>simply resume your render like nothing happened. This idea is already<br>in the todo :)<br><br>Daniel Salazar<br>3Developer.com<br><br><br><br>On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM, David <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:db4tech@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:db4tech@yahoo.co.uk">db4tech@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi development team Brecht & Thomas (sorry don't know everybody's names),<br>> Idea 1:<br>> Since render times can be quite long to clean up indirectly lit
areas...<br>> How do you feel
about the idea of adding the option of automatic progressive<br>> render saves?<br>> A user can choose between either a time value, e.g. once an hour,<br>> or after x amount of sample passes, e.g every thousand passes,<br>> the ongoing render is automatically saved and rendering continues.<br>> Then if there is computer crash, or power-cut, while the computer is left<br>> rendering, many hours rendering will not be lost.<br>> The automatically saved image file name, could be same as the .blend file<br>> name, plus date & time?<br>> That way, each image name will be unique, without the chance of images being<br>> overwritten when a user starts another render with the same .blend file.<br>><br>><br>> Idea 2:<br>> Future render optimizations...<br>> Is it possible to focus sample passes based upon light intensity within a<br>> scene,<br>> darker areas receiving more sample passes than lighter areas
(which already<br>> clean up very quickly)?<br>> If this isn't already happening with Cycles, would it provide a significant<br>> speed boost?<br>><br>> Idea 3:<br>> While rendering, trying to close Blender shows a popup warning window in the<br>> centre of the screen,<br>> "Blender is currently rendering, are you sure you want to close the<br>> program?" Yes/No<br>> I did this by mistake after just over 10 hours of rendering... :(<br>> While closing other open program windows (which were in front of Blender),<br>> I accidentally closed Blender before I had saved the ongoing render.<br>><br>><br>> Idea 4:<br>> Aperture size scale...<br>> 'f/ stop' as an option to 'Aperture size', so users can use which they feel<br>> most comfortable with?<br>> (Shallow depth of field) f/0.9, f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/3.2, f/4, f/5.6, f/6.3,<br>> f/7.1, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22 and f/32 (Depth depth of field).<br>>
***<br>><br>> I am presently doing a BA (Hons) and using Blender & Cycles for my Major A,<br>> do you mind if I submit responses as part of my degree work? Hoping to post<br>> my finished render results online.<br>><br>> Thank you greatly for your time and fantastic work producing Cycles and<br>> Blender!<br>> David Black<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bf-cycles mailing list<br>> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Bf-cycles@blender.org">Bf-cycles@blender.org</a><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles">http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-cycles</a><br>><br>><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div></div></div></body></html>