Here is a explanation of the meaning of the rendering statuses indicated in the 3Delight Cloud Dashboard (located in 3Delight Display's Sidebar).
Rendering processes shown in the 3Delight Cloud Dashboard
Syncing | Indicates scene data are being uploaded to the cloud. (The duration depends on the scene size and the extent of the changes since the previous cloud render.) |
Starting | Indicates a rendering process is in the initialisation phase (i.e. commissioning of ressources and starting the rendering application). (This can take from 0 to 30 seconds.) |
Parsing | It indicates the rendering has started parsing the scene (reading and building the data structures for the ray-tracing algorithm). (The duration depends on the size and complexity of the scene.) |
Rendering | The rendering has started to compute pixels. |
Completed | The rendering finished normally. |
Cancelled | The rendering was cancelled by the user. |
No service | The rendering was cancelled due to no service availability (after a short while waiting). This should rarely occur and applies only to interactive preview renderings. |
Stopped | The rendering was stopped due to an account with insufficient credit or absence of cloud access privilege. |
Aborted | The rendering finished abnormally (eg. aborted by the user or has crashed). |
| The following applies only for batch/sequence rendering. | |
! service | The rendering is waiting for ressources to become available. This should rarely occur. This is unlike the "No service" status for interactive preview rendering; in batch/sequence rendering it will wait indefinitely for the service to become available. |
! spending | The rendering is waiting for other images to be completed before starting. If it did start, it would exceed the user's spending rate limit (specified in the user's account settings). |
! download | The rendering is waiting for other images to be completed before starting. If it did start, it would exceed the download capability. I.e. other images are already rendering and are maximizing the download capability of the internet connection, so there is no point rendering more simultaneously. |
What about the status for a sequence of images?
The status indicated for a sequence of images is a selective indication of the statuses of the underlying images. Since the images in the sequence can be in different statuses, we select what we consider is the most indicative status to report. This is done using the following priority assessment and logic:
- First, is there any images in the following status: Syncing, Starting, Parsing or Rendering? If so, the most advanced stage among these is reported as the status for the whole sequence. As a result, most often, Rendering will be indicated.
- Then (it means there is no activity), is there any images in the waiting for service status (! service)? If so, it will report as such for the whole sequence.
- Then (no activity and nothing waiting), is there any images in the following status in this order: Aborted, Stopped, Cancelled? If so, it will report that status for the whole sequence. Note: it must be understood that we prioritise indicating any ongoing activity (or even waiting for such activity) over interruptions.
- Lastly, if any images are in the status Completed, we report the status of the whole sequence as such. This means for a sequence to obtain such status, there should be no activity, nothing waiting, and no premature image termination.
Image View of 3Delight Display
When launching a rendering, you will be presented a progress indicator in the image view after a few seconds (if the image does not appear immediately).
The image view of 3Delight Display
The indicator goes through two stages as indicated:
Syncing… | It indicates that scene data is being uploaded to the cloud. |
Starting... | It indicates the rendering process is in the initialisation phase, including reading and parsing the scene. |
In the future, we may report the Starting stage in two steps for a more detailed update. If so, the indicator would go through three stages:
Syncing… | It indicates that scene data are being uploaded to the cloud. (The duration depends on the scene size and the extent of the changes since the previous cloud render.) |
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Starting… | It indicates the rendering process is in the initialisation phase. (This can take from 0 to 30 seconds.) |
Parsing... | It indicates the rendering has started parsing the scene (reading and building the data structures for the ray-tracing algorithm). (The duration depends on the size and complexity of the scene.) |