Tile Selection For Large Renders?

Support Lighting and Rendering
#1

I’m rendering an 8k image, fairly high poly count, good amount of VRAM usage. I’m also using a very high number of samples because of SSS and DoF. It has crashed twice after a few hours of rendering. I’ve calculated that it’s probably going to take 30 hours total.

My question is:
Is there any way to choose specifically which tile gets rendered first? I’d like to render them one at a time and stitch them together later.

#2

You can’t choose which tile gets rendered first, however you can select part of your view and just render that.

Go into your camera view, press ‘Ctrl+B’ and create a border, then render.

See:
Render Border
and
Border option in Dimensions Panel

Al.

#3

Oh, that’s even better! Some parts of the image don’t need as many samples, so that will actually save a bit of rendering time. Thank you!