mdsanima-dev / mdsanima-render-time

Blender add-on estimates and calculate how long your animation will take to render done based on the rendering time of the only one frame

MDSANIMA RenderTime

The Blender add-on estimates and calculate how long your animation will take to render done based on the rendering time of the only one frame.

You will also find here useful rendering statistics as well as automations of various time-consuming activities and manny more useful features and tools.

Blender Add-on

The add-on is located in the View3D > UI area panel and show rendering time statistic. Automatically calculating rendering time for frame range based on your scene then shows date when rendering is done. The add-on also printing rendering statistic in System Console inside Blender terminal.

Developed on Python 3.10.4 and tested on Blender 3.1.2 and 2.93 LTS version. The add-on also works on older Blender versions as well but this is not recommended.

How to Install

Installing the add-on is very simple process, just follow this instruction steps:

• Go to release page on this repository and download the latest add-on version.
• Open the Blender 3.1.2 in your system.
• Then open the Preferences and select Add-ons on the right side.
• Next click the Install button and select the add-on path on your hard drive where you previously downloaded the latest version.
• Select the Community support level button to view the add-on in the list below in the next step.
• On the search field type MDSANIMA RenderTime and then enable an add-on.

That's it, the add-on MDSANIMA RenderTime has been enabled. Now close the Preferences window the add-on will appear in 3D Viewport on the right context panel section. If you don't see this section, just use the N key shortcut in 3D Viewport area to open the right panel where our add-on is located.

Finally, we can meet together.

How to Use

Just click on the RENDER button to see the statistics. The button renders one frame of the animation and uses it to calculate how long your whole animation will take to render done. To refresh statistic, just hover the cursor in to the button RENDER, but don't click on it, then you will see the new date when the rendering will complete.

You can also use the quick F12 key shortcut to render a frame and then just hover the cursor over the render button to see the new statistics.

Development

Instruction for the Blender and Python add-ons or package development can from with my other repository but instruction for automate release is the some like here. Please check the mdsanima-dev Python package documentation site on GitHub Pages for more information about it.

Only to do with Blender and Python add-ons development you must install the fake-bpy-module for the code completion in Visual Studio Code just type in the terminal:

pip install fake-bpy-module-latest

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License

The Blender add-on MDSANIMA RenderTime developed by Marcin Różewski is released under the terms of GPL License.

mdsanima-render-time's Issues

AST error parsing bl_info: ValueError malformed node or string

I get error when try to install addon on new release of Blender 2.93.2 LTS .

This is a error from Blender System Console:

AST error parsing bl_info for: 'C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.93\\scripts\\addons\\mdsanima-render-time\\__init__.py'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 137, in fake_module
    mod.bl_info = ast.literal_eval(body.value)
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\python\lib\ast.py", line 105, in literal_eval
    return _convert(node_or_string)
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\python\lib\ast.py", line 94, in _convert
    return dict(zip(map(_convert, node.keys),
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\python\lib\ast.py", line 97, in _convert
    left = _convert_signed_num(node.left)
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\python\lib\ast.py", line 78, in _convert_signed_num
    return _convert_num(node)
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\python\lib\ast.py", line 69, in _convert_num
    _raise_malformed_node(node)
  File "D:\blender_exe\blender_2_9\blender-2.93.2-windows-x64\2.93\python\lib\ast.py", line 66, in _raise_malformed_node
    raise ValueError(f'malformed node or string: {node!r}')
ValueError: malformed node or string: <ast.BinOp object at 0x0000028A4F1EEE80>

Add new `mdsanima` icons logo

Add name for Cycles Render Devices CUDA and CPU

Print render stats in console

This features 49b3cad printing render statistic in System Console window on Blender. Default this window is disabled.

Implemented in module core.mdsrt_timer and show stats when render is:

• on initialization of a render job rt_init
• on render (before) rt_start on core.mdsrt_timer
• on completion of render job rt_complete on core.mdsrt_timer
• on canceling a render job rt_cancel on core.mdsrt_timer

Reference Blender Python API

To enable this window, click on the header Window in the top of Blender, then select the last option Toggle System Console.

That's looks like now:

Add original icons from Blender in colors

Use only the icons you need, exported in the same colors as the rest of the mdsanima icons.

• #41
• #39
• #40

Saved value of render time globally and show accumulated render time

Add new metadata statistic

Fix help string on button in the bottom

When you hover the overall 3 buttons at the bottom of the plugin, the word browser is misspelled.

Add button for scene setup

This feature would be creating the collection and some object for render preview.

Save render time time count on the `.blend` files

Real time show users

Add options to save statistic in to `.log` or a `.blend` file

Checking for new version

Add project maintainers as codeowners

Making our open-source project maintainers explicit with a CODEOWNERS file.

Layout text and icon for render time

Add `black` and `isort` python code formater

Calculating render time for all frames

Unable to install in Blender 3.6

I get the same error that the person trying this on the Mac did:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.6\3.6\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 333, in enable
    mod = __import__(module_name)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mdsanima-render-time-0'

I tried this with the name used in the latest download. I have tried renaming the zip to mdsanima-render-time.zip. I have tried renaming the zip to mdsanima-render-time-0.zip. In between attempts, I clicked "Remove" in Blender. In no case have I been able to install the add-on.

Add options to allow control the log print on the console

Now when open the console log print always printing some help value.

Add settings panel below main panel

Add human friendly formatting on `All Frames` stats row

Now these options stats show frames like 240000 and this is hard to read.

Add formatting that's show in this 240 000 formatting string.

Tiles render time and create fast render time calculation

Scripts `npm` for testing

Workflow script for bumping version in `__init__.py` file

Add a standard-version to automatically create CHANGELOG.md and tracking version

This option allow to generate automatically CHANGELOG.md file for the project
and tracking version on addon.

For some reason thats features is only for the development not allow and accecs
for the Blender Addon MDSANIMA RenderTime.

• #4
• #5
• #6
• #7
• #8

Used my own version conventional-changelog thats allow make more cool CHANGELOG.md file.

Add global render time and some other statistic

These features show global compute render time for all project and showed other useful statistic.

Calculating cloud render time for more than one devices

Devs dependencies `standard-version` and `conventional-changelog` npm package

Refactoring and clean up python code

Break down the code into several files and folders so that it is easier to understand and develop. Add more functionality.

Calculating actual rendering time for all frames and put into layout panels

Implementing the main feature of this Blender Addon.

• #9
• #12
• #10
• #11

Bump files, types and custom header in `CHANGELOG.md`

Add `.editorconfig` file for helps maintain consistent coding styles

That's file setting up end-of-line and indentation styles for Python and other languages.

Documentation and more info editorconfig.org

Calcutating rener time for one frames

Export colored icon from figma with all 27 colors

UI layout for new button issues, website and blog

New button opening website in browser.

Activation error on Blender 3.2.2 / mac osx 11.6.8 (Big Sur)

Hello, I'm trying to install / activate your AddOn v.0.1.1 but I get the following error:

`Traceback` (most recent call last):
  File "/Applications/Blender.app/Contents/Resources/3.2/scripts/modules/addon_utils.py", line 335, in enable
    mod = __import__(module_name)
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mdsanima-render-time-0'

Best regards,
Eric

Fix the render statistic section to more transparent

This section can be cooler and that's give me clear stats.

Add `package.json` and fill in basic data

Show render output properties

In the add-on's main panel, add options that display the components of render output properties.

Fix `RT Initialization` when render animation

When rendering animation this value is still increase and failed all other calculation. Also, this should be two digits after a comma.

Add options to switch to colored icons

Add the same statistics from `View3D > UI` to `Output Properties` area