Wish (for Roy)

[Alejandro Testa]

Hi Roy,  we are having big problems in Venezuela with electricity power, so is very common that we get our electricity off for 5-20 minutes every day, sometimes I am rendering an image with path tracer  and this run for 24 hours or more, I lost my work at least a dozen times with this problem, so It will very useful at leat for me that you can load a rendered image and start again in the pass we left. Now you can continue a stopped image, but what I am asking for is the possibility, to save the image, shut down the computer, start again load the image and continue rendering in the las saved pass. 

Thank in advance.

Alejandro

[akinlolu olugboji]

Second that here, like radiocity of days of old

[pun1407]

Saved pass is a very good function for nxt, but I think you need a powerful ups. I have a same case, it just one a several second, but it will destroy my harddisk on this several second.

[Ros. Riha]

speaking of autosaved passes, i would like to be able to save them like autosave001, auosave002 ...in some cases, earlier passes is more useful and also, comparison of results at 50-100-150-200 ... passes would allow me to judge how mny passes I need more accurately in the future...

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Certainly not something that's coming for a while. You might try a single-node render farm for this-- I'm in the process of updating the farm to the current build. There's even a way to back up all of the data on the farm (manually) so a render can certainly be restarted. Let me know if you want to pursue this, you'll need some help.

Edit-- never mind-- I don't think the render farm helps this problem very much....

[Ros. Riha]

would it be possible to make nXt autosave .nXtimage? If yes, then we would b closer to this "continue" function...would not we?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

It does save an .nXtImage.