Allow to write appleseed logs to file alongside render?

[dictoon]

I don't see any way of accessing appleseed log files at the moment. Allowing to write them to disk seems like an option. Thoughts?

[jdent02]

Unless I'm missing something I don't see an existing way to dump the render logs to a file.

So is this more appropriate for appleseed core?

[dictoon]

The idea would be to add a log target to the global logger (global_logger()). I think the log target can be implemented as a Python class that exposes a write() method with the right signature. I'm not sure about the exact details but that would be the idea.

[est77]

In appleseed.maya we have this in the render settings:

This only applies to appleseed rendering logs, not addon logs.
And when a filename is selected, we log the output of the renderer to that file. If no filename selected we log as usual.
I can give you the code to implement the logging.