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Progress Meter / Status Bar
There are four phases that occur before an image is complete; translation,
photon emission, final gather, and render. The progress meter is split to report
two pieces of information.
■ The top bar reports the progress within the current phase.
■ The bottom bar shows the progress made toward completion of the entire
rendering.
The translation and render phases always occur. Photon emission and final
gather phases only occur if those options have been enabled. Processing time
is only spent for those phases that are active.
You can also cancel a rendering by clicking the X icon next to the progress
meter, or by pressing Esc.
A status bar, at the lower lift corner of the Render Window, echoes the progress
of the top bar on the progress meter.
History Pane
The data stored in history entries includes
■ Output File Name. File name of the rendering and an indicator to tell you
the type of rendering.
■ Output Size.
■ View. View name that is being rendered. If no named view is used, the
view is stored as current view.
■ Render Time. Render time measured in hours : minutes : seconds.
■ Render Preset. Name of the render preset used for the rendering.
Any history entry that has a file name will be saved.
History Pane - Shortcut Menu
Right-clicking on a history entry displays a menu that contains the following
options:
Render Again Restarts the renderer for the selected history entry.
Save Displays the Render Output File dialog box where you can save the image
to disk. If you’ve selected a temporary entry, saving converts it to a normal
entry.
Save Copy Saves the image to a new location without affecting the location
stored in the entry. The Render Output File dialog box is displayed.
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