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Render Queue 3

Compatible Figures: N/A
Compatible Software: Daz Studio 4.21

Details

Queue up your renders, sleep while you work!

The Render Queue enables you to render many scenes in sequence, unattended, allowing you to do your renders overnight without having to sit next to your computer to start each render by hand.

When you are done working on a scene in Daz Studio, you can add it to a queue, set a target image file name, and work on the next scene. When you are done with your day’s work, you can launch the queue, go to sleep, and admire your renders the next morning. You can even tell the Render Queue to shut down your computer when it’s done rendering!

The Render Queue was my first product in the Daz Store, originally published in April 2019. It has been very popular. This version 4.20 is a substantial rewrite: even though the core features are still recognizable, it adds a lot more:

  • 1. The Render Queue is now a pane (tab), and you can drag and drop your scene files onto it.
  • 2. There can be more than one queue: each is a JSON file on disk, and you can keep as many as you want and open and close them.
  • 3. The progress window is now much more detailed and gives you an “estimated time remaining” for the entire queue.
  • 4. You can render icons and tips for scenes, and for entire asset icon sets (for example, for pose sets or materials).
  • 5. Rendering animations (entirely or in chunks) is now supported.
  • 6. The Render Queue can automatically dismiss Daz Studio error messages (e.g. “missing files”) during scene load to be able to keep going unattended instead of waiting for you to click a button.
  • 7. If you know Daz Script, the plugin now has a scripting interface! (Beta status)

The old Render Queue always restarted Daz Studio after each render; the new version makes that optional, and the feature is disabled by default. You can turn it on again though, and you can even tell the plugin to only restart Daz Studio after a certain number of renders.

Note: This product is for 64-bit Windows only, and it renders Iray only.

What’s Included and Features

  • Render Queue 3 (.DLL)
  • Render Queue pane in Daz Studio user interface
    • Output directory (for renders)
    • Queue file management (New,Open,Save,Save as)
    • List of scenes in queue
    • Add scene, edit scene, remove scene, move scene up/down, open scene in Daz Studio buttons
    • Asset icon set sub-pane for rendering sequences of icons and tips for poses and other assets
  • Detailed Edit scene options window:
    • Support for full scene renders and rendering icons and tips for the scene
    • Support for rendering entire animations
    • Select which frames should be rendered
    • Select which cameras should be used
    • Override render size (for rendering drafts)
    • Pre-render assets (for loading arbitrary assets such as render settings onto the scene before rendering)
    • Practical target file name handling
    • Eliminate spaces in filename option
    • PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF format drop-down
  • Detailed and informative render progress window during queue processing
    • Lists each queued render with detailed status (type of render, camera, elapsed or estimated render time)
    • Total progress with estimated time remaining
    • Intuitive state tracking (Opening scene, waiting for scene to settle down, rendering, optionally restarting Daz Studio)
  • Option to restart Daz Studio after renders
  • Option to shut down computer when done
  • Scripting interface
  • Detailed PDF user guide

Notes

  • This product includes:
    • 1 DSON Core Installer