Solar Animation - Stop the intermediate Renders

[Tom Klaber]

When you are setting up a solar render using the Heliodon - it takes forever because renderworks re-renders the scene 4 times before starting the rendering for the movie.

You have to render it once in the mode you want to use.

Then when you select the heliodon tool - it renders the scene again.

Then it renders again right before you select where you want the time and date.

Then it renders again right after you select where you want the time and date.

Then it asks you for the compression settings. Only then does it start to make the movie... which fails more often than it works.

Am I doing this wrong?

There must be a way to set this up without having to do 4 unwanted renderings. I have it set on Fast Renderworks for now - so it only cost 1 minute each time - but if I wanted to set up a render for final quality - then we are talking an hour just to set it up.

Thanks!

Edited January 19, 2016 by Tom Klaber

[PVA - Admin]

I think this is new behavior, you should absolutely not have to wait for a rerender between these phases and I don't recall having to do so when I was making the Renderworks guides. Submitting as an issue now.