Autosave samples!

[Elvissuperstar007]

it would be great if you realized render autosave and quicksave in future versions. For example: you render your image for a long time and suddenly light is off. you restart octane ane continue you render.

after 13 000 samples (2 days) I pray .. that, nothing happened! I need up to 20,000 samples to get a result

[face]

You can do it...
Save the image with e.g. 10.000 samples if you want to exit. On the next day, render from beginning the next 10.000 samples and comp the images with 50% together...

face

[steveps3]

How is that going to work? You will have 2 grainy renders. You can't combine these to make one render without grain.

One of my recent renders took 96 hours. Luckily without any glitches.

[mirobimbo]

It works well.

50 minutes render + 50 minutes render next day = 100 minutes render.

http://photoshopnews.com/2007/03/27/ima ... -extended/

http://www.tipsquirrel.com/index.php/20 ... ack-modes/

[steveps3]

Sadly that is not how render engines work. You can't just combine 2 images and expect them to look as if they had rendered for the combined time.

You will get a slight improvement by combining images but you can't fake a 20 hour render by adding 2 x 10 hour renders. You might get close if you combined 2 x 15 hour renders.

[mirobimbo]

This should help, each render has pixels of noises on different places.
It works, maybe not 100 %, but better as totally new render.
You can combine for example more renders, if you need improve quality existing previous render.

[retmia]

It must be depending on the chance factor of the pixel calculation between the passes. I don't know if the computing order is just the same, is there variations between two same pov/light renders?

[3form]

+1 autosave samples would be great!!!

[Elvissuperstar007]

I render 40 hours! (21,000 samples PMC 1800x1800), the noise a lot!
Nvidia 460GTX 2Gb

[mirobimbo]

Each render is different in noise. It is good for noise reduction.