Reply To: Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

[Omar Domenech]

@tbrbn That’s a good question Thibaut. If you want to leave your computer alone and just hit render, then at the moment you have to sync all the files, so Blender knows which files are already there and doesn’t duplicate them. 

That could be a great feature though, having some kind of empty place holder so that syncing doesn’t take forever. 

I think you can do this…. say in the Google Drive folder it’s already on frame 250, so you have to sync 250 EXR’s and in order to not wait that long, you can go into Google Drive settings, turned off sync automatically. That way probably it wont download all the 250 EXR but the ones you put in the Drive folder manually will upload to everyone else.

Problem is now your Blender wont know how many EXR files there are in the folder and it can render files that are already rendered because it doesn’t see them in the Drive folder because it is not synced. 

So in the .blend you can set the time line to start in say frame 300 and hit render animation because you know there are only 250 EXR in the Drive folder. So now you haven’t sync 250 files but you’ll start dumping from 300 onward. And when we that have all the files sync reach frame 300 and say you have render 20 frames by then, then our Blender will see frames from 300 to 320 are already there and it will jump to 321. Only keep in mind not to save the file or the change will propagate to everyone else. 

Hope that makes sense.