OSX: Force Foreground Processing Priority

[Anonymous]

I am doing a bunch of rendering locally and when I switch to another window while rendering, the amount of processing dedicated to rendering is reduce due to Focus Theft as described here.  If would be nice if there was a way to prevent this from happening so that during renders that take a while (they take a while...?) I can work on other things/write emails etc.  Not sure how to do this or if it can be easily done but with only a single computer, this would lead to massive productivity gains and reduced rendering time.

[roambotics_scott]

Alternately, you could do cloud rendering without having to worry about local CPU usage at all.

[Anonymous]

In theory this sounds great, in practice, I have found the number of
iterations I want for rendering on my retina macbook pro is much higher
than the number done in the autodesk cloud (perhaps it is tweakable). It
also takes me a fair amount of tweaking to get the light right/camera
angle, blur etc and the cloud doesnt let me really iterate well.

I am producing photorealistic renders where the subtleties matter hence the
attention to detail.

[roambotics_scott]

Ah didn't know that and that's annoying and should be fixed.

[colin.smith]

Hi @Anonymous

Local back ground render will be released in March.  You will be able to set your image size and resolution independent of your screen rez.

Stay tuned,

Colin

[Anonymous]

That's great news!

[brianrepp]

Accepted due to local background render coming this spring