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Interval saving

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Hi all,

Is it possible to save the rendering from blender every some amount of time? I would need to have this feature because if I get a crash or windows makes something weird, I don't loose all of the hours' render.

To me, the best way would be that you set an interval of autosave and you get the output images, also with a log file of the samples reached, just in case I want to merge with a second render.

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Re: Interval saving

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It can be implemented, but it is not super trivial, which is why I didn't come to it yet.
Asticles wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 4:03 am also with a log file of the samples reached, just in case I want to merge with a second render.
I think it would be better to save the .flm, so you can just merge the films and let LuxCore do the math.
However this would also require an easy to use program which can load the merged film and do the tonemapping.
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LuxCore already supports this feature via periodic saving properties :?:
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I know. But when doing this from Blender, I see these problems:
- color management will not be applied, so the image might look different from the final result in Blender
- compositing is obviously not applied
- If not only PNG/EXR, but also .flm should be saved, there's this issue: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCore/issues/78
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A pity, because I would be a really useful feature.

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Dade wrote: Thu Jul 19, 2018 2:30 pm LuxCore already supports this feature via periodic saving properties :?:
Is this option available in blender? I cannot find it :(
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wasd wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:13 pm Is this option available in blender?
No, for the reasons I mentioned above.
You can export as LuxCore scene though and add the property: https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCore_ ... iodic_save
Or edit the export/config.py file in the addon and add the properties here: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendL ... fig.py#L32
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B.Y.O.B. wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:23 pm
wasd wrote: Mon Dec 17, 2018 6:13 pm Is this option available in blender?
No, for the reasons I mentioned above.
You can export as LuxCore scene though and add the property: https://wiki.luxcorerender.org/LuxCore_ ... iodic_save
Or edit the export/config.py file in the addon and add the properties here: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendL ... fig.py#L32
I should use standalone Luxcore for that, right?
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