3Delight: Setting a maximum render time?

ultia14162

I want to use 3Delight for some very long (well over 200 frames) animations since simple lighting like a headlamp or spotlight can lead to most of the image being converged in mere seconds. However, DAZ stiil attempts to render the image further, even if the difference visually is negligible. However, I haven't seen any options anywhere to impose a limit on how long a render can go for before it's considered done, like in iRay with the Max Time setting. Is there a similar option somewhere for 3Delight? Or maybe a script?

Leana

No, there's no similar setting. 3DL works very differently from Iray, which works in incremental steps till it considers it "converged" enough: 3DL simply renders the scene, there's no notion of iterations or convergence.

ultia14162

Damn. Well thanks anyways. I did tinker with the interactive render mode for iRay and found it also renders very quickly compared to photoreal, and it still retains the max time limit.