[Bf-funboard] Render pause

[Chris Burt]

Yes it sounds like Blender's renderer broken off into a "Render
server" that just handles tasks and waits for commands as assigned..

Regards,
--Chris

On 7/6/07, Michael Crawford <psyborgue at mac.com> wrote:
> What about a render Que with the pause feature as well as the ability
> to que up more scenes, etc.. perhaps this could be a separate process
> than blender entirely, perhaps even some sort of deamon.
>
> On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:55 AM, Myvain wrote:
>
> > With Esc, we can stop a render but we don't have the ability to
> > resuming it.
> > Close yours eyes and imagine : you are on the beach, the weather is
> > nice, and... ahem... no... simply imagine you have just launched a
> > big render task who will take several minutes or a few hours to
> > finish and while waiting you decide to work on another scene. Until
> > there it is a little slow but possible. While working on this
> > second scene comes the moment to makes some preview render, but the
> > first render take again 100% of the cpu time. it's sloooow !
> > With the ability to pause the render we can temporarily suspend the
> > first render to concentrate some minutes on the second work or
> > secondary tasks (urgent need to send an email, to answer a chat's
> > contact, to look a video, to make some researches) without all
> > being slowed down by the render.
> > Is it possible ?
> > With the work on render api, is it a feature wich could be
> > established ?
> >
> > (sorry for my poor english, there is a lot of google translation in
> > this text :/. Thank you for your 'indulgence')
> >
> >
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