[Bf-funboard] Feature suggestion: Renderprocess

[Nathan Allworth]

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 04:53, James Kaufeldt wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've switched to Cinema 4D XL8... However, Blender will always have a 
> reserved space on my harddrive - so I figured I could keep adding some 
> requests as a result of neat things found in C4D::..
> 
Good to hear Blender is still on your HD :)

> The first thing I've noticed, which should be very easy to implement, 
> is this:
> 
> Upon hitting F12 to render, the rendering should run in a separately 
> spawned process. There are several benefits - most notable are
> 
> 1. Rendering doesn't block the entire app. You can keep working on the 
> scene while the renderer executes.
> 
Agreed, though some people don't use the render window, they render it
to the 3d wndow instead.
> 2. If the renderer crashes, your scenedata would still be safe in the 
> main application which most likely is unaffected by the rendercrash.
> 
Yeah, agreed. Rendering huge scenes for print is a pain because it
crashes alot on higher resolutions.
> Semi-advanced users can already make separate renderthreads using a 
> little Python and the background rendering option, but this should be 
> built-in, default and with visual feedback (renderwindow).

> Have fun,
> /Jamesk
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Nathan Allworth