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yesterday I decided to render one picture before going to bed, so I set the max time to 3h, but after 2h I was so tired and I had to go sleep... well I'd liked very much if i had the opportunity to directly increase the max time to 8h to extend the rendering overnight.

Mm.. maybe, but you could also do as i do. Just put in 9999 hours and sample level 30 or so before you go to bed and then let it render until it looks good enough so far it worked fine for me.

/ Max

yep, that's true max, in fact I start thinking setting the max sample/time is sometimes useless, just because you often leave it render the most time you can and then stops it.

Dennis wrote:

The user only needs to specify the amount of time to spend processing the render and Maxwell will automatically optimize its internal calculations to obtain the best result in the render period.

mmh.. make me understand: if I set 9999h maximum time and I stop render after 1h, I obtain worse results than have set it to exactly 1h, because Maxwell optimized it to fit in that time?