Impossible to avoid Blender create a image file when baking the animation to a own scene format. #88529

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Pedro A. · 2021-05-24T17:29:57+02:00

Pedro A. commented

2021-05-24 17:29:57 +02:00

System Information
Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 64 Bits
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 466.27

Blender Version
Any Blender version..

Short description of error
Impossible avoid to save a image file when the animation is exported to a own scene format trough Render Animation option or Ctrl-F12.
Any possibility to add a option to disable this behavior?

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Is necessary a specific render engine addon that have this option.

**System Information** Operating system: Windows-10-10.0.19041-SP0 64 Bits Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 NVIDIA Corporation 4.5.0 NVIDIA 466.27 **Blender Version** Any Blender version.. **Short description of error** Impossible avoid to save a image file when the animation is exported to a own scene format trough Render Animation option or Ctrl-F12. Any possibility to add a option to disable this behavior? **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** Is necessary a specific render engine addon that have this option.

Pedro A. commented

2021-05-24 17:29:57 +02:00

Added subscriber: @povmaniac

Falk David commented

2021-05-25 10:23:10 +02:00

Added subscriber: @filedescriptor

Falk David commented

2021-05-25 10:23:10 +02:00

@povmaniac I don't think we can classify this as a bug. It looks like this is intended behaviour. I can see why this would be useful though.

Pedro A. commented

2021-05-25 11:43:57 +02:00

Thanks for reviewing the report. Imagine this situation: some render engines have the option of exporting to their own scene format, to render outside of DCC (Maya, Blender or Houdini..). This allows them to send all their animation to a render farm regardless of the DCC they used to create it. Now, imagine exporting 1500 frames from Blender, and that it creates, yes or yes, 1500 image files on disk. Also, these images are empty, since nothing has been rendered, it has only been exported. I know this is a desired behavior in Blender, but I sincerely believe that it is not practical at all.
Cheers..

Thanks for reviewing the report. Imagine this situation: some render engines have the option of exporting to their own scene format, to render outside of DCC (Maya, Blender or Houdini..). This allows them to send all their animation to a render farm regardless of the DCC they used to create it. Now, imagine exporting 1500 frames from Blender, and that it creates, yes or yes, 1500 image files on disk. Also, these images are empty, since nothing has been rendered, it has only been exported. I know this is a desired behavior in Blender, but I sincerely believe that it is not practical at all. Cheers..

Pedro A. commented

2021-05-25 14:05:10 +02:00

At least it would be a good idea to add the possibility to activate or deactivate this behavior through the API, if you do not want to expose the option in the user interface.

Ankit Meel commented

2021-06-04 13:04:40 +02:00

Added subscriber: @ankitm

Ankit Meel commented

2021-06-04 13:04:40 +02:00

I'm inclined to close this as feature request. Triaging team is not in a position to judge usefulness of all feature requests on behalf of the modules.

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Communication/Contact#User_Feedback_and_Requests
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Not_a_bug

I'm inclined to close this as feature request. Triaging team is not in a position to judge usefulness of all feature requests on behalf of the modules. https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Communication/Contact#User_Feedback_and_Requests https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Not_a_bug

Thomas Lachmann commented

2021-06-05 17:26:00 +02:00

Added subscriber: @Lachi

Thomas Lachmann commented

2021-06-05 17:26:00 +02:00

I've added a patch [D11512 ](https://developer.blender.org/D11512) to optionally disable image file saving in custom render engines.

I've added a patch [[D11512](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D11512) ](https://developer.blender.org/D11512) to optionally disable image file saving in custom render engines.

Pedro A. commented

2021-06-07 10:57:50 +02:00

In #88529#1171517, @Lachi wrote:
I've added a patch [D11512 ](https://developer.blender.org/D11512) to optionally disable image file saving in custom render engines.

Thanks a lot @Lachi

> In #88529#1171517, @Lachi wrote: > I've added a patch [[D11512](https://archive.blender.org/developer/D11512) ](https://developer.blender.org/D11512) to optionally disable image file saving in custom render engines. Thanks a lot @Lachi

blender-admin commented

2021-06-14 13:44:18 +02:00

This issue was referenced by b84707df17

This issue was referenced by b84707df17547e45e91f242b810bd2c66c6b1771

Ankit Meel commented

2021-06-18 08:42:07 +02:00

Changed status from 'Needs Triage' to: 'Resolved'

Ankit Meel closed this issue

2021-06-18 08:42:07 +02:00

Ankit Meel self-assigned this 2021-06-18 08:42:07 +02:00

Ankit Meel commented

2021-06-18 08:42:07 +02:00