[Bf-funboard] Pause render button

[Greg Zaal]

This is a long requested thing that's not trivial to implement in blender
afaik, but can be done easily with the OS.

See:
http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/582/how-can-i-pause-a-render-in-progress-and-then-resume-it-at-a-later-time

On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 at 23:46 luke etyrnal <luke.etyrnal at gmail.com> wrote:

> pause button makes sense
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:34 AM Ильдар Ахметгалеев <akhilman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Adrian Kubasa пишет:
> > > A "pause button" would be very usefull.
> > > If you have long render times (animation) and you have to do quick
> other
> > > stuff in other software, pause the render and continue later.
> > > I can´t understand why there is a pause button in the viewport but not
> on
> > > while it´s "real" rendering.
> >
> > On UNIX operating systems you can send SIGSTOP signal to any process to
> > suspend it.
> >
> > $ killall -SIGSTOP blender
> >
> > And then SIGCONT to resume.
> >
> > $ killall -SIGCONT blender
> >
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