Rendered time log

KnightTek

Hello Everyone,

I have been thinking of asking this question for some time because I cannot find the answer, yet. In DAZ Studio after a render is complete, is there a log of how long the render took and the time it finished? The reason I ask is a lot of the times I let my scenes render while I am sleeping but I never know actually how long they took to complete. I do know that if I use Iray, I can set an amount of time before the render stops but what if I am using 3Delight?

Thanks in advance for any help! :-)

 

Fishtales

Go to the Help menu/Troubleshooting/ View Log File. Scroll to the bottom and then slowly come back up until you see the line 

2017-06-30 00:11:03.269 Total Rendering Time: 6 hours 3 minutes 39.12 seconds (obviously it will be different for you)

Or, if your text viewer lets you, try Search/save and work through until it gets to that line. What I do is copy that line and I use IrfanView to view the image, select Info, and paste the line to the Comment (button bottom right) also adding any other relevant information I decide on e.g. lighting used, products etc. I then select all in the Log File, delete, and save so that the file is blank for each render. If you want you could copy and save the Log File as a separate file before clearing it if you want to save it.

alan bard newcomer

or maybe the program could just generate a report for each render?
BTW ...  it will not render if you have the log file open... and will not present an error message to that effect.
there are about 9000 renders in my render  stuff... even if it only takes a minute to document each render by myself.. 
that would have been about 100 hours over the past five years... 

 

 

 

SpottedKitty

Many versions ago, there used to be a render time display, down at the bottom (I think it was a thin little popup that vanished when you closed the render window). Maybe it would be worthwhile to put in a feature request to have it put back in?

Come to think of it, considering the different nature of Iray rendering (it never really completes, it hits a stop condition), would it be a good idea to have a visible timer for Iray as well?

Richard Haseltine

The render time does still appear on the status bar, but only briefly.

KnightTek

Fishtales said:

Go to the Help menu/Troubleshooting/ View Log File. Scroll to the bottom and then slowly come back up until you see the line 

2017-06-30 00:11:03.269 Total Rendering Time: 6 hours 3 minutes 39.12 seconds (obviously it will be different for you)

Or, if your text viewer lets you, try Search/save and work through until it gets to that line. What I do is copy that line and I use IrfanView to view the image, select Info, and paste the line to the Comment (button bottom right) also adding any other relevant information I decide on e.g. lighting used, products etc. I then select all in the Log File, delete, and save so that the file is blank for each render. If you want you could copy and save the Log File as a separate file before clearing it if you want to save it.

Fishtales, you are correct! I do see it listed in the Log file after doing a lot of scrolling. :-) I was hoping it would be an easier find but if I remember to check immediately after the render, I should be OK. Thank you for pointing me in that direction!

KnightTek

Richard Haseltine said:

The render time does still appear on the status bar, but only briefly.

Hi Richard, I do remember seeing it briefly on the status bar if I am looking at the render when it completes. It would be nice if it stayed until I cleared my scene. Well, one can hope. :-)

KnightTek

SpottedKitty said:

Many versions ago, there used to be a render time display, down at the bottom (I think it was a thin little popup that vanished when you closed the render window). Maybe it would be worthwhile to put in a feature request to have it put back in?

Come to think of it, considering the different nature of Iray rendering (it never really completes, it hits a stop condition), would it be a good idea to have a visible timer for Iray as well?

I think a feature request is a great idea!

KnightTek

alan bard newcomer said:

or maybe the program could just generate a report for each render?
BTW ...  it will not render if you have the log file open... and will not present an error message to that effect.
there are about 9000 renders in my render  stuff... even if it only takes a minute to document each render by myself.. 
that would have been about 100 hours over the past five years... 

 

 

 

A report for each render would be nice. Or, perhaps studio could keep a thumbnail of the render in the Render Library with date/time listed under it.

alan bard newcomer

it you set the render window for "verobose" it gets you informed,  but then it closes with the end of the render. 
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it's like the handy list of missing files it generates...  you can't use the program until you close the window with the list of missing files..  
so it you want to trouble shoot... you have to copy the data into a word processor.. 
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obviously Daz has some super programmers creating the "working" parts of the program... but an interface specialist improving what the program communicates would be really nice.
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I had a day of black iray card renders (using the 1050 ti) because even though studio saw the card and listed it in the iray render window...  the render engine with the 492 version of daz couldn't access the card (error mseeage hidden in log file. 

 

 

pr0eR1s0n

RTX 2070 SUPER JETSTREAM + GTX 760 4GB(no cpu):

Total Rendering Time: 1 minutes 3.94 seconds

hansolocambo

Two things missing I needed many times :

1- Show last render, to display the last rendered image. Sometimes you close the render window by mistake and then... well you just have to render it again. That's really not cool.

2- Show last render info. This would definitely be a must. 

A way to work around the issue is to render using ManFriday's Render Queue. This way you write down somewhere the time you start the render using Render Queue. And because this plugin saves automatically the picture when the render is done, you can compare the time you noted with the picture file creation time. And deduce from that the time it took :/ 

Not great. But that's a way to do it. Or of course you check the log file for that info, as explained by @Fishtales

Richard Haseltine

hansolocambo said:

Two things missing I needed many times :

1- Show last render, to display the last rendered image. Sometimes you close the render window by mistake and then... well you just have to render it again. That's really not cool.

Window>Panes(Tabs)>Render Library (it does have an upper size limit, though, so you may need to adjust that from the option menu)

2- Show last render info. This would definitely be a must. 

A way to work around the issue is to render using ManFriday's Render Queue. This way you write down somewhere the time you start the render using Render Queue. And because this plugin saves automatically the picture when the render is done, you can compare the time you noted with the picture file creation time. And deduce from that the time it took :/ 

Not great. But that's a way to do it. Or of course you check the log file for that info, as explained by @Fishtales

sidneybrown

Thank you so much!  I've had the question burning for a long time too! 

 

Fishtales said:

Go to the Help menu/Troubleshooting/ View Log File. Scroll to the bottom and then slowly come back up until you see the line 

2017-06-30 00:11:03.269 Total Rendering Time: 6 hours 3 minutes 39.12 seconds (obviously it will be different for you)

Or, if your text viewer lets you, try Search/save and work through until it gets to that line. What I do is copy that line and I use IrfanView to view the image, select Info, and paste the line to the Comment (button bottom right) also adding any other relevant information I decide on e.g. lighting used, products etc. I then select all in the Log File, delete, and save so that the file is blank for each render. If you want you could copy and save the Log File as a separate file before clearing it if you want to save it.