Render Edge Case Fixes, Credit System Improvements, UI Default Dark Mode, Quality of Life
Render stability improvements, credit system enhancements, default dark mode UI, and internal error handling updates in this release 🚀
Renderjuice 2.1 was released on March 12, 2024
Key Summary
- Improved render stability by enhancing retry logic on failure and fixing GPU shutdown issues.
- Enhanced the on-demand budget billing to address edge cases where users were running out of credits during renders, providing earlier notifications.
- Improved performance of the “rendered this month” section of the credits tab.
- Made dark mode the default UI theme, based on team preferences, while still allowing users to toggle to light mode.
- Fixed UI configuration issues, including dark mode/light mode toggling and nav bar toggling not being saved across sessions.
- Upgraded internal infrastructure to better handle error reporting during the validation phase, ensuring proactive issue resolution.
Render Edge Case Fixes
We’ve improved render stability behind the scenes by improving our retry logic on failure. There were also a few edge cases where our GPUs were shutting down before reporting completion of rendering frames, so we’ve fixed that!
Credit System Improvements
With the launch of our new credit system, it was destined that there were a few things we see that we can improve! We’ve fixed a few issues with the on-demand budget billing. There were edge cases when users were running out of credits during renders, so we’ve made that a bit more transparent by adding a few checks here and there and notifying users earlier on in the process.
This release also enhances the performance of the “rendered this month” section of the credits tab.
UI/UX Quality of Life
Dark mode 🌑 is now the default as opposed to light mode 🌕 by default! I asked around the team and turns out we’re all generally using dark mode to develop, so it’s only natural that the dark mode experience is slightly better than the light mode experience. The option is still available of course to toggle to light mode.
We’ve also fixed some issues with the UI configurations including dark mode / light mode toggling and nav bar toggling not being saved across sessions. It should now properly save your dark mode sessions as dark mode, and your nav bar should stay minimized if that’s where you left it on your computer. This won’t persist across computers, yet, but this should hopefully offer 80% of the ideal experience.
Internal Error Reporting
We’ve improved our internal infrastructure to better handle reporting errors during the validation phase. This is crucial as it helps us be proactive and get on issues fast! This is what we’re known for and we definitely don’t want to slow down as the system gets more complex.