Cycles Render Help

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Hi, I’m fairly new to Blender, especially Cycles, and I was wondering if there is a way to render a scene “forever,” as in you actually have to abort the render when you tell it to stop instead of setting samples or whatever. I have to use my CPU because I’m on a laptop with a poor GPU and I know you can set the shader options in the 3D workspace to “rendered” and it will render forever as long as your preview settings are set to 0. When I set the render samples to 0 they automatically change to a minimum value of 1. Is there anyway to render it forever so if I went out or something and came back home to my computer I could stop it manually? I want to know if you can do this so I can render it overnight or something and get the best, clearest image possible. Thanks.

Abby

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You can set the render samples to 10,000,000, that’s near enough to forever as you’ll most likely need. If you set the ‘Progressive Refine’ option in the Render / Performance panel it won’y use tiles so you can stop the render at any time by pressing Esc or pressing the X button next to the render progress bar at the top of the blender window. You can then save the render using the Image / Save as Image menu (or F3) in the render window