PartitionRender - Blender add-on

What is this for

Blender add-on allowing to interrupt the rendering process and resume it from the interrupted place. For those who are not able to have the powered-on computer for render for a long time.

Features

For example, the whole image render takes 12 hours. And there is no way to have the computer powered on all the time, but it is possible to power it on for 5 hours with breaks. If you interrupt the standard rendering process to turn off the computer – next time render starts from the beginning, and all progress is lost. PartitionRender add-on allows dividing the image into several blocks – partitions, each of them is rendered separately. Choosing division by X and Y in 2 parts, the image is divided into 4 blocks. Each of them will be rendered about 3 hours that fit in the time to work. Each partition after rendering saves to file. The next time (after rebooting the computer) PartitionRender automatically continues with the partition on which the break occurred. After finishing all partitions renders, partitions automatically compile to the whole image in compositing.

Add-on web page

For more information visit https://b3d.interplanety.org/en/partitionrender-add-on/

I would love to hear your feedback and issues to make the addon better.

Installation

• Download *.zip archive with the add-on distributive
  
• In Blender: User Preferences — Add-ons — Install Add-on from File — specify downloaded archive
  

Tested with Blender versions

2.78, 2.79

Current version

0.0.5 (stable)