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LogicReinc / LogicReinc.BlendFarm

A stand-alone Blender Network Renderer
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Feature Request: Stop/Pause single nodes #81

Open atoav opened 11 months ago

atoav commented 11 months ago

It would be cool if one could stop or pause (=disconnect?) single nodes, including localhost. E.g. if you have a render running, but you wanna work on one of the rendering machines temporarily you could just disable it for that period and then activate it again.

I guess for the remote nodes this would be possible already by just closing BlendFarm, but it might be useful to do this on the machine that started the rendering as well (essentially offloading all rendering to the remotes).

In terms of UI one could do this by changing how the red/green circle buttons on the node list work: grafik

If I am not mistaken, right now they allow you to reconnect single disconnected nodes. It would be cool (and to some degree: expected behaviour) that this would allow to disconnect single nodes as well.

LogicReinc commented 11 months ago

Technically its already possible, clicking the green indicator will disconnect the node. Except due to the reconnection logic it will attempt to recover the connection immediately which is why it keeps continuing. I guess its possible to remove the node from the ongoing task pool..but its a bit of a niche scenario.