Is 3D viewport render time exposed in python?

Question

When 3D viewport is in render mode, ie SpaceView3D.viewport_shade = 'RENDERED' Can the render time be gleaned or estimated using python?

3D view in rendered mode taking 12.63 seconds.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '17 at 00:19

However you can probably create a handler for scene_update which:

iterates over all areas and check if area type is 3d view
if so check if the view type is rendered
and if it is start a timer and use some approximation algorithm to record the time
however if the view type is not rendered or there are no 3d views and the timer is running, stop the timer.

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