idea #195: Render que working in the background useing space cpu cycles

if i could line up some renders (a selection of short animations, many views of the same complex scene, etc) and export them to the 'render waiting list' I could then go and finish off some other work without constantly having to check back and see what blender is doing.

Folding@home has a tidy little applet which works folding proteans for stanford university (google it- find the cure to cancer while you browse the web & fiddle with polygons) the program has a little progress bar which sits in kpanel and lets you know everytime you finish a unit, it then sends the results off and downloads the next workunit. Something like this would be perfect, if you could set it so when you press the 'render' button it adds it to the list waiting -anytime you have spare cycles on your cpu it uses them to render its way through the list and output the results to a directory.

ok so this is already sort of possible with blender but thats all the more reason to open it up so it's an easy and quick function to use.

The real reason i think this is important is because i (and i bet i'm not the only one) often set blender to render something, surf the web for a while, go back and move the camera to a new angle and set it to render again but this time i get so engrossed in reading debian changelogs that an hour passes before i remember to go and move the cam and start the render again -by this time i've forgotten what i was doing in blender and accidentally start the render without turning the sun back on or with half the building i'm about to render invisible - thus wasting the last render my computer will do that night because I'll have fallen asleep before it's done.

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