quick question regarding indigo's processing

dougal2 · Post by **dougal2** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:09 am

when indigo is saving an igi or png to disk, is it still processing the render in the background at the same time?

reason i ask is that i run indigo off a network drive, so file saves take a little longer than if it was running locally.

it can take up to 2 - 3 mins to save the image file. is this 'lost' render time?

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:13 pm

So how much time does the tonemapping take? If you want to tonemap later anyway, how much faster is the rendering if you turn off tonemapping?

I turned off bloom by default now, because it seems it takes quite a lot of time. And it's computed every time the image is saved, right?

Deus · Post by **Deus** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:34 am

Just increase time between saves to 1 minute.

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:15 am

I guess that's standard in blendigo anyway.

The point is: Does the render converge noticeably faster if tonemapping is turned off?

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:37 am

Can tonemapping be turned off ? I don't think so... it's a required element, and imo default settings doesn't mean no calculations...

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:40 am

If you select linear tonemapping it does not do any tm calculations, so that's turned off by my standards...

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:39 am

Ok, maybe you're right, I dunno... Maybe using Indigo Tone Mapper you can say how long it takes...