Hi,

I'm wondering if there's an info window for mantra where I could see the progress when it's generating photons, and the render time.
I'm guessing people posting their render times didn't time them with their watch!

Thanks a lot

In the Pane press + symbol and create new pane called Render Schudeler, also in Outputs in Mantra node Main section press command and there you can ON/OFF things like what infoyou see when houdini is rendering data and number of processors used to render. Read Info.

Check the Properties->Statistic Tab of Mantra ROP. Switch “Verbose” level for 1 to see basic info. You will have two numbers, something like:

Render Time: 0.937u 3.984s Memory: 23.13 MB of 26.66 MB arena size

u - is a user time (read mantra)
s - is a system time (read time of Windows/Linux to do their job launching your render)

cheers,
sy.

Thanks a lot for your fast answers, this was exactly what I was looking for!

Hi,

this is my first time using Windows on a Houdini job…so how do I get the render stats to show? On Linux, it would all print out to the terminal, so what should I expect to happen in Windows?

Thanks!

same question as CiaranM

I believe you just launch Houdini from the Command Line Tools.

on Win it usually outputs all statistics to the small Houdini Console window that pops up automatically

tamte
on Win it usually outputs all statistics to the small Houdini Console window that pops up automatically

IIRC the problem was that the little console wasn't always popping up. Or, if you closed it once, it wouldn't re-appear.
I haven't used H on Windows in the intervening years so don't know the current status…