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I think there's needs to be a auto shutdown feature added to the new version, just because of the fact that doing high quality renders (16,000 samples) take awhile especially if your rendering one after the other through camera tracking. It would save my power for thoses overnight renders.

A function like that would be impressive. Does anyone agree or am I onto a loose ball game here?

Cheers,
tharr

In the manual it says:

-e, --exit
Close the application when rendering is done

Probably this is what you want?

I actually mean shutting down the whole computer after rendering. Like torrents, after finish it will autoshutdown.

There's probably a way in Windows to write a batch script that triggers shutdown of the system when Octane process exits. Maybe someone else could help you.

I see. Cheers, matej.
Not sure how It would work since Octane closes after everyframe, hope it could be done!

Yeah, for animations it's more complicated because you can only start rendering the animation from within your 3D app. If it would be possible (non-manually) to first export every frame to .obj, then you could write a script that would render all those, and shutdown when finished.

You'll have to wait for some developer to comment this.

Well, I'd really prefer an auto Keep ON feature !

Unfortunately, It is not a joke. On my machine, Octane closes without any apparent reason, rather frequently...

Closes for everyframe rendered?
Low graphics card? Ram?
Closes on any mesh? High / Low poly?

Autoshutdown function would be superior. Even for only still images - not animation - it will save power and graphic card life.
I support this request.

ROUBAL wrote:Well, I'd really prefer an auto Keep ON feature !

Unfortunately, It is not a joke. On my machine, Octane closes without any apparent reason, rather frequently...

yes this does happen to me too