3 requests for RR v10

[Francois Lord]

Hi,

Since RoyalRender v10 is in the works. I would like to ask for 3 requests for things that bug me every day.

#1: Better support for dark theme. Currently, collapsed projects are unreadable with a dark green text on a dark gray background.

#2: Proportional exclusive priority. We have a lot of clients that are in working hours during the day so the number of available clients vary a lot between day and night. We currently use divisions to set the level 1 exclusive priority between different categories of projects, but we would really like to use a percentage of the clients available. Division A has 25%, Division B has 12%... This way, we could use divisions and projects in the level 1 priority list more flexibly. 

#3: Ability to select frames/batch-of-frames and trigger actions on them. It happens pretty often that we need to re-render just a few frames after updating the scene. Also the current log files list (the only place where we can see what is going on with the frames of a job) is hard to read. The date, the frame and the client are all crammed in a line, and we only see the first frame of the batch. I wish it were a table view like the jobs. 

Thanks!

F

[RR, Schoenberger]

Hi

 

1)

No Problem, the colors will be changed.

I thought there had already been adjustments to the colors, but it seems it was not tested well.

 

2)
I would place such proportional setting as a replacement/adjustment for the client averaging.

Day-to-day work. The exclusive should be used for urgent projects.

We need to think about that.

 

I have directly one question/problem in mind as you say “projects  and divisions”.

Such a proportional setting would probably be for “projects OR divisions”.

Or “projects, then division” (Like the average level A and B at the moment)

Because lets try to use ProjectXY to 30%  and DivisionA to 20% in one setting.

Now imagine ProjectXY has send DivisionA jobs only and it already rendering.
Then all other projects sending DivisionA jobs will not get any share of clients.

But that is just a first thought, it might be possible to use “divisions and projects” in one setting.

 

 

3) About the re-render:

You can open rrViewer via rrControl and delete the frames with the issue.

Then rrViewer will ask you if the rrServer should check for missing frames afterwards.
(Or you use any app to delete the frames and use the check button in rrControl yourself)

 

About a command based on selected frames:
I could imagine that you can select frames in the “Frame Log” and execute python scripts on them.

 

 

4) Log file list.
It should be possible to show the whole range of frames send to a client e.g. “1-100+20“.

But not for all jobs. If the job has the option Keep Scene Open, then the list would be way too long to display.

As the log file is reused for the next segment send to a client.

>I wish it were a table view like the job

Can you try the Frame Log or Frame Table?

There you can see all frames, sort by machine and open the render log with a click in a separate window.

 

 

 

regards,
Holger Schönberger

Craftsman and Keeper of the Royal Render Flame

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