#A strange? 3DS wish…
Gary and Co.: I have a suggestion for a future edition of 3DS but I'm not
sure whether it is really as good an idea as I think that it is.
I do a lot of segment animations because I need my rendering machine during
the day. I often set it up to render when I go home from work at night and
stop it when I get in the next morning. (In fact my machine at work is
spending the weekend rendering again.)
I try to remember to write down the rendering time that is displayed when I
interrupt rendering in the morning but I will often forget at least once a
week. It would be nice if there was a way to have 3DS write (actually
append) to a rendering log. I would want the log to include the number of
frames and the elapsed rendering time. It would be nice to include the time
and date too. It would probably be best to make this rendering log an
option in the keyframer – you wouldn't want it all the time, and probably
never in the 3D editor.
This would certainly help in accounting for rendering time, both for people
who do this for money and for people like me that just have to account for
their time with management.
What do you think?
Chris