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The

cloud tab in 3Delight Display is a general monitoring tool of the progresses of your ongoing cloud rendering activities. It displays activities not only for rendering as it happen in

3Delight Cloud Dashboard, located under the cloud tab in 3Delight Display's

image view, but any cloud rendering activities happening under your account  —  such as renderings launched using the command lines and renderings launched using other applications or on another computer at another location.

The cloud tab in 3Delight Display sidebar, is a general monitoring tool of the progresses of your ongoing cloud rendering activitiesrenderings. It displays activities monitors not only for the rendering as it happen happens in 3Delight Display's image view, but any cloud rendering activities happening under your account  —  such   –  such as renderings launched using the command lines and renderings launched using other applications or on another computer at another location.


3Delight Cloud activity tab Dashboard in 3Delight Display

Here is a complete description of the content of the dialog.


Rendering Activity Details

Indicates the rendering of a sequence of images. Clicking on the arrow will expand it and to list all images within the sequence that are at some stages of the rendering process.
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Icon of to identify the application used to lunch the rendering. Currently there are. Shown here is the icon for renderdl. There are icons for: Maya, Render (Maya Batch), Houdini, Cinema 4D, Katana, Katana Batch , and renderdl (3Delight's command line). Shown here is the icon for renderdl.
STARTED
Time at which the rendering process was started.
32-CORE MINUTES
The This is the meter for the rendering cost — the number of cloud minutes spent so far on the rendering process. This It is counted as a quantity of 2432-core - minutes usage, not user time. The more cores are used during the rendering, the faster this meter increases (i.e. it will increase 10 times faster at 1000 cores than at 100 cores during rendering). For the first 3 three 32-core minutes, the quantity is displayed in seconds.
Note: During the syncing, minutes are not counted, nor charged. 
CORES
The

During rendering, it indicates the number of cores used

by

. This value typically fluctuates during the course of the rendering

process. This will vary over time

. As it fluctuates over time, it affects the rate of increase of the 32-CORE MINUTES meter.

Once the rendering is finished (successfully or not), it indicates the average (time weighted) number of cores that were used over the course of the rendering.

STATUS

Indicates the status of the process — such as Syncing, Starting, Rendering, Completed, Waiting, Aborted, etc. The list of reported statuses is are described in detail here. 

This icon will be shown while hovering a rendering process on the list. Click to cancel that rendering process.
InfoWhen

* When a rendering process is finished (successfully or not),

it continues to be listed

it remains in the list in a subdued shade for one hour

(using a subdued shade)

.


Account Information

At the bottom of the Cloud tabdashboard, a summary of the user's account information is presented. Here is a description of the content and its functions.

Description:

Available
Shows the minutes credits available in the account.
Usage

Shows

the recents

recent usage in minutes. Today is from midnight until now. Yesterday is the full 24 hours of the previous day. One week is the previous 7

x 24 hours from now

days (not including today).

Account
There The four icons are four links to the website for user's online account at the following pages: Account Overview, Detailed Transactions Transaction History (payments and renders), Purchase Credits, Account Settings.