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With Bucket rendering, an additional .vrimg is written, storing the data of the completed buckets. When resuming the render, V-Ray reads the .vrimg file to determine which buckets still need to be rendered and continues to calculate what is left to complete the image. Another great ability of this feature is that the Light Cache data is saved within the partial image file so that the light cache does not need to be recalculated when the render resumes.
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Workflow
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Still Images
- Go to Render Settings window > Common tab > Image File Output rollout and enable the Resumable rendering feature. If using the Progessive sampler, it is highly recommended to enable the Autosave interval (min) by setting it higher than 0. This saves partial files that can be used and helps prevent losing the render progress if Maya crashes and a .vrprog file hasn't been created/updated.
When using the Bucket sampler, the Autosave interval (min) option isn't available.
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