how to pause rendering

[chow choppe]

Hi all

 

is there any way by which we can pause a rendering and then resume

During rendering the tab shows the pause button but its freezed and not usable

 

 

Thanks

[dean@pikcells]

i think you can only pause when rendering an animation, and it will only pause after completing the current frame.

[SandmanNinja]

yup

[Jackie Teh]

press "Esc"

[chow choppe]

press "Esc"

esc cancels the rendering, doesnt pause it

[Ricardo Eloy]

Only Scanline Renderer allows you to pause the process. If you're using VRay or other engine, you won't be able to pause it.

[tecton3d]

Only Scanline Renderer allows you to pause the process. If you're using VRay or other engine, you won't be able to pause it.

For what it's worth, Final Render let's you pause mid-render.

[heni30]

Hi,

 

If this is an emergency (pressed cancel by accident, or like in my case I wanted to stop so I could export the file quickly to a thumb drive) you can save what you have. Then when you're ready to restart put 100% black planes in front of the camera covering the part that has already been rendered. When it starts up again the black areas will take no time to render then when the uncovered parts render you can save the file and splice it to the file you had saved before. Necessity is the mother...................

[ihabkal]

the first few versions of vray allowed to pause in mid render. oh the good days...