Forum: Poser 11 / Poser Pro 11 OFFICIAL Technical


Subject: Resume Option for Poser 11.2

shonsu opened this issue on Oct 03, 2019 ยท 7 posts


an0malaus posted Sun, 06 October 2019 at 5:28 AM

@Kerya, isn't QM's pause only going to stop commencement of the next render in the queue? AFAIK, QM still invokes FFRender on the host, if it's running locally to the Poser session, and FFRender doesn't have any pause facility that I'm aware of. Poser itself doesn't have the option to pause and resume a render because it's using FFRender. On some platforms, there may be a way to lower the priority of a running process so it doesn't interfere with what the user is actively doing, but that would require that the render happens in a separate process.

Others will have more to say on this due to their direct experience.

I had previously asked for a way to suspend and resume Poser automatically as some other applications are capable of doing, but it has yet to rise sufficiently up the priority list to be either acted on or rejected. @shonsu's request is also one I would like to see, but unless the render is in a separate process from Poser itself, I can't immediately see how the application could resolve any changes the user might make to the scene while a render is paused, without either needing to abandon the render and start again, or completely ingnore any changes made by the user once the render had started.

Neither circumstance seems to be particularly useful as an improvement to Poser. If changes won't be incorporated in the remains of the render, just cancel and start again. If the user needs to continue working on a scene or other frames of an animation, either send the render to the queue as Kerya suggests, or render in a separate process.

I remember seeing useful commentary from @bagginsbill on adjusting the Windows process priority of render processes. I would certainly like to see the ability to pause and resume a render, given the caveat that the scene can't change, or needs to be in a separate render process. My original request came because I was being frequently prompted by macOS to install software updates which required restarts. Poser normally runs for days or weeks on my system without restart (except when I crash it or lock it up with a rogue Python script), so I would certainly like the option to have the last autosaved scene reopened when Poser starts, so I can continue working exactly where I left off.



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