Render time set - how many samples ?

[rfollett]

is it possible to see how many samples where reached if you set a fixed time for your render, say 3 hours for example?

[INNEO_MWo]

Yes. In KS7 you"ll that on the bottom left corner in the render window

[mattjgerard]

unless you let it render overnight and the render window disappears after some minutes that would be a nice feature to plop into the metadata sidecar file that can be written when rendering psd files. I'll have a looky and see if its in there.

[mattjgerard]

Unfortunately the metadata sidecar file doesn't report how many samples it got to, but that would be a cool thing to know.

Here is the data it does provide, which could be useful in other areas. My goal is to use this file to work a workflow into a spreadsheet or something more user friendly to populate our assets database with more data. But sadly this doesn't work with NR. Yet

KeyShot 7 meta data file for a rendered still image of "untitled.69.psd"

Using interactive camera settings from KeyShot
Perspective camera
Camera distance = 4.27695
Camera inclination = 15
Camera azimuth = 45
Camera lookat  = <0 2 0>

Scene assembly structure including materials

  Group "Default" {
    Group "Cylinder" {
      Part "pCylinder1" with material "Anodized Brushed Black Chromate"
    }
  }