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. (There is no charge for that process.) |
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. (There is no charge for that process.) |
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Starting… | It indicates the rendering process is in the initialisation phase. (This can take from 1 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 of this step in entirely dependent on the size and complexity of the scene.) |
Sidebar of 3Delight Display
Here is an explanation of the various rendering statuses reported in the 3Delight Cloud tab of the Sidebar of 3Delight Display.
3Delight Cloud tab in the Sidebar of 3Delight Display
Syncing | It indicates that scene data are being uploading to the cloud. (There is no charge for that phase.) |
Starting | It indicates the rendering process is in the initialisation phase (i.e. commissioning of ressources and starting the rendering application). (This can take from 1 to 30 seconds.) |
Parsing | It indicates the rendering has started parsing the scene (reading and building the data structures for the ray-tracing algorithm). |
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. It does not apply to batch rendering (see below). |
Stopped | The rendering was stopped due to an account with no sufficient credit or lack of cloud usage authorisation. |
Aborted | The rendering finished abnormally (eg. crashed). |
| The following applies only for images as part of a batch rendering. | |
Waiting (service) | The rendering is waiting for ressources to become available. This should rarely occur. Note: this is unlike the "No service" status for interactive rendering. In batch rendering it will wait indefinitely for the service to become available. |
Waiting (spending) | The rendering is waiting for other images to be completed before starting. If it did, it would exceed the user's spending rate limit (specified in the user's 3Delight Cloud account settings). |
Waiting (download) | The rendering process for that image has not started yet because if it did, it would exceed your download speed capability. (You already have other images rendering and have reach the limit of your download bandwidth.) |
What about the status for a sequence of images?
The status indicated for a sequence of images is a limited indication of the statuses of the underlying images. Since the images in the sequence can be in different statuses, we select what we determine is the most indicative status to report. This is done using the following priority assessment and logic:
- First, any images in the following status: Syncing, Starting, Parsing or Rendering. If so, the most advance 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), any of the images is in the Waiting (service) status. If so, it will report as such for the whole sequence.
- Then (no activity and nothing waiting), any images in the following status, if the following order: Aborted, Stopped, Cancelled, Completed. If so, it will report that status for the whole sequence.