Is there a way to script DAZ to make an audible beep, ding or alarm in Windows when a render is finished?
I’d pay for this. I tend to minimize the program while doing test renders that take more than two minutes, get distracted, and lose productive time before I think to check back and see if it’s done yet. :-D So this would be a great time-management-enhancement device for those who render.
Is there a way to script DAZ to make an audible beep, ding or alarm in Windows when a render is finished?
I’d pay for this. I tend to minimize the program while doing test renders that take more than two minutes, get distracted, and lose productive time before I think to check back and see if it’s done yet. :-D So this would be a great time-management-enhancement device for those who render.
I’d love the idea. Also love it if I could set up a queue for my computer to do its rendering when I was say… Away from my desk, so that I could set up jobs to render, and not have to do it manually.
Oh yeah! I usually keep a silent profile, except for couple of cases where my attention is needed, NOW, because it is actually important.
I count “render finished!” as important, although I can generally guess it by the sound of my CPU fans. So if someone bangs together one where I can pick .wav of my choice, I’d be pleased!
Mmm, but the point of auditory signal is that you don’t need to watch the screen.
So I can be, say, in kitchen, cooking my noms, and then I hear my computer scream “RENDER FINISHED, EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE” and I can come back and set the second one happening.
if you have the CPU,RAM meter widget active on your desktop, just look at the needle.
GPU usually 100% during render, drops right down when finished.
Yes, but that requires me to not be absorbed in some other activity (i.e. actively noticing that widget without something maximized over it). A ding would be more likely I’d notice it.
Render finished alert would be great, but I’d like some kind of frame count or progress indicator for animations. I’m rendering a 200+ frame animation atm, and I have no idea how far it’s gotten, other than it’s been going for 50 minutes.
Render finished alert would be great, but I’d like some kind of frame count or progress indicator for animations. I’m rendering a 200+ frame animation atm, and I have no idea how far it’s gotten, other than it’s been going for 50 minutes.
Select the “Timeline” Tab before running render for your animation, “Timeline” is shown using 0 to your end frame.
(ex. End frame 99, “Timeline” shows 0-99, just like a Number Line)
Also, there is a scroll Cursor/Pointer that points to which frame you are currently on, so during a render of an animation it will always point to the frame DAZ Studio is currently working on.
I was looking at the code to the old ‘Quicksave’ script…I think that it could be adapted to this, so that not only does it render, but it saves the scene before it starts and then plays the sound when done…
You are my hero. I set up a custom action so it renders and then plays the comment whenever I hit ctrl+r. Thank you so much!!
My pleasure, SickleYield. I did notice that DS needs to be running in the foreground or the sound will not play, you might want to keep an eye on that.
mjc1016 - 12 January 2013 01:55 PM
I was looking at the code to the old ‘Quicksave’ script…I think that it could be adapted to this, so that not only does it render, but it saves the scene before it starts and then plays the sound when done…
That could probably be done, (and i bet i’d still hit ctrl+S two times before starting the script ).
