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Resumable rendering

Resumable rendering

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Resumable rendering

- [Instructor] Even though resumable rendering has been around for quite some time, I first encountered it in Frye render for 3DS Max many years ago, it has been a fairly recent addition to the V-Ray toolset, first making its appearance in V-Ray Next. The basic idea of course, being that we can stop a render at any point during the creation process and then have that render pick up our resume from where it left off at a later time, be that later on that same day or maybe even some weeks down the line. A feature that could be and a especial lifesaver if a render should get interrupted because of some external problems, such as say, a power failure or such. The option is usable with both the bucket and progressive sampling engines although it does work slightly differently in each case. So when using bucket rendering an additional .rvimg file which is a V-Ray specific version of the raw file format is written to disk in…

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