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Batch Render users...what are your thoughts?

DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,400
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Hi everyone. Sometimes I like to do a series of pictures and tell a little story. The problem I have is getting caught in the Pose-Render-Pose-Render cycle and it taking FOREVER because of the amount of time I actually spend Daz'ing. A friend recommended I try the Batch Render Tool and let my computer do the work while I'm sleeping or at work. Sounds like a great idea! My question is, what are your experiances with it? Good? Bad? Any tips, tricks or warnings you can offer?

One that popped into my head is a concern that I would damage my computer by leaving it on to render for 8 hrs. I render in Iray and have a GTX960 GPU and an Intel i7 Core (3.30) Even a simple 2 person scene in a small/medium room it almost always kicks to my CPU to render within a few hundered iterations so it would be my CPU doing the lions share of work. If anyone has any input or advice before I purchase it, I would really appreciate it. Seems almost too good to be true so I'm cautious.

Thanks!

http://www.daz3d.com/batch-render-for-daz-studio-4-and-rib

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  • AtiAti Posts: 9,130

    I don't have this particular product, but in general, I find batch rendering a very big time-saver. Even if I don't let my PC run during the night, I can start rendering a couple of scenes while I do other stuff on the computer, and not have to constantly watch the process to see when it finishes, so I can start the next scene manually.

    I've done 1000+ images for my first graphic novel, and I'm in the process of doing another batch of 1000+ images right now. I couldn't imagine this without some sort of batch renderer.

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    The Batch Render product works just for 3Delight renders. It's no use for Iray.

  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,400

    Oh bummer! What batch render program do you use Ati? Does it work in Iray?

     

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,130
    DDCreate said:

    Oh bummer! What batch render program do you use Ati? Does it work in Iray?

    It's rendering now, so I can't check, but I think it's this one: "Batch Renderer for DAZ Studio" over at Renderosity. I'm sending you a link in private, I'm not sure I'm allowed to post it on the forums.

    It renders with whatever render engine you saved the file for, so it can handle Iray as well.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,386
    BeeMKay said:

    The Batch Render product works just for 3Delight renders. It's no use for Iray.

    Sorry but this is not correct. I've been using this product since it first came out and it handles Iray fine.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • l_stowel_stowe Posts: 165

    This looks really interesting. I am guessing that this will render the camera in a scene using the settings that have been saved. IF that is the case would it render each camera in a scene too?

  • DDCreateDDCreate Posts: 1,400
    edited September 2016

    My understanding of how it works is that you pick the camera angle you want, lock the scene/lock selected nodes and then save the scene as say "Pic1". Then if you have alternate angle of the same picture you want rendered you can unlock it, switch camera angles, repeat the process and save as "Pic2" and so on. Once you have your list of pictures saved, then you go into the script for batch render, load them in the list and off you go. That's how I THINK It works. I haven't bought the product yet. Additionally, once you have all your pictures loaded you can pick your render settings for the entire batch. i.e. "5000 iterations, Quality 2.0" ect which might save some time if you hadn't set them all individually already. Seems like a great solution for series renderers.

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited September 2016
    alexhcowley said:
    BeeMKay said:

    http://www.daz3d.com/batch-render-for-daz-studio-4-and-ribThe Batch Render product works just for 3Delight renders. It's no use for Iray.

    Sorry but this is not correct. I've been using this product since it first came out and it handles Iray fine.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

     

    I was under the impression, as the product page states that it only works for 3DL, but if it's also working in Iray, that's certainly a product that I will buy.

    Though, I'd need a standalone Iray render engine?

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  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,386
    DDCreate said:

    My understanding of how it works is that you pick the camera angle you want, lock the scene/lock selected nodes and then save the scene as say "Pic1". Then if you have alternate angle of the same picture you want rendered you can unlock it, switch camera angles, repeat the process and save as "Pic2" and so on. Once you have your list of pictures saved, then you go into the script for batch render, load them in the list and off you go. That's how I THINK It works. I haven't bought the product yet. Additionally, once you have all your pictures loaded you can pick your render settings for the entire batch. i.e. "5000 iterations, Quality 2.0" ect which might save some time if you hadn't set them all individually already. Seems like a great solution for series renderers.

    You don't need to lock anything.  Apart from that, it's more or less as you say except that I've never overriden any render parameters.  Make sure you don't use the perspective camera, when composing your scene, as it won't store your selected camera angle if you do.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • mark128mark128 Posts: 1,029

    I have the batch render product and I use it with Iray all the time.

    The render quality settings that come with the produce are only for 3DL so you need to set all the render quality settings yourself for Iray.

    Also the render to RIB feature is only for 3DL since RIB is a 3DL/Renderman format.  

    With Iray renders you can cancel them while they are running if you use the monitor option and think the quality of the image is good enough even though it has not reached your termination criterion. The script will save the image and go on to the next image in the queue.

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