We updated our cloud rendering and introduced a powerful frame-splitting feature.
This feature is automatic and will affect any single image (regular rendering or illuminance) over a specific size. You will not have to do anything.
If the image is large enough to trigger this new feature, your rendering will be split into crops to be processed in parallel on multiple nodes for a much faster rendering.
Once all the parts are completed, the image will be recombined and result in a single frame as any other rendering job.
The only thing you will notice is that the progress preview will show the crops rendered at different stages of completion.
You might also notice that near the end of the rendering, when all the crops are completed, some edges will be still visible due to differences in exposure for each crop. A final refresh will then show the whole image again, this time with a uniform exposure.
The frame size at which splitting will occur and the order of the crops is subject to changes. If many crops seems to be waiting in queue (white), just let the service scale up and more and more crops will then be rendered simultaneously.
You can expect significant rendering time improvements. A large frame can be split into a dozen or more crops and the total render time can be an order of magnitude less.
For illuminance renderings, the full illuminance scale cannot be determined until all crops are completed, so you will see different scales for each crop, and only at the end the scale will be recomputed and the full frame rescaled.
Service Performance Considerations
Frame-splitting is now enabled for Revit and Fusion 360 single images only, for all users. This includes regular renderings, and illuminance (for Revit).
Other products (3ds Max, Navisworks, AutoCAD) and image types (Panoramas, Solar Studies, etc) won’t take advantage of this feature.
After a period of service monitoring, we might adjust frame-splitting parameters, and add support of other products or image types.
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