Rendering in Batch-Mode stops too early

[AdrianRenner]

Hello there,

I am trying to render an image in batch mode with the following resolution: 6666px x 4992px.

After something about 5hours (18.000seconds) the engine stops and says:

20.01.12 13:29:59[0x0-0x28e28e].org.blenderfoundation.blender[18447] Done.

...but I set up 99999999 seconds to render (with an periodic save interval of 240seconds) and a sample rate of 512ppx

The result is still very noisy and I need to render it far longer than only the valued 5hours. Is it possible to do that?...I mean - I don't understand why the system brakes up by itself and stops the rendering.


Yours sincerely
Adrian

[J the Ninja]

By "sample rate of 512px" you don't mean haltspp do you? If you are trying to stop the render after a certain amount of time, you should leave haltspp at 0. On the other hand, if you have a specific quality in mind, you should use haltspp only and leave halttime at 0.

[elijahk]

you are rendering at a very high resolution. You may consider the Hilbert Lowdiscrepancy sampler or make some small border renders to be merged later.
I suppose that you want the picture to be rendered for undefined time. Don't set 99999999 as halttime, but just 0. 0=infinite