When I have Alfred Progress turned on and verbose output, Houdini Console prints this when the render completes:

Render Time: 73.812u 2.343s

I have not been able to find anything about making those numbers standard minutes:seconds format. I thought the second one was seconds, but when I timed the above render with a stopwatch, I got 1 minute 20 seconds.

So if anyone knows what those numbers mean or how to get Houdini to output that, I will buy you a beer. Or a soda or something if you don't drink :wink:

Thanks

kj

These numbers express seconds. “u” (user) - means actual time consumed by render process (which is a user process), “s” (system)- is an additional time taken by the system for loading, I/O etc.

There used to be even worse: there was third number of some mysterious meaning…

cheers,
sy.

PS Preferably dark beer… whenever gonna be occasion

Ahhh, so apparently, any pre-calculations (shadows, etc.) won't be shown in that final number, so I'd have to add all the “u” numbers together, then convert to minutes:seconds. Still better than nothing.

Now if I could just figure out how to email a beer 8)

Thanks