Re: Linux and openGL batch renders

["Adrian Wyer" <adrian(at)the-mill.com>]

this is a real bottleneck in our pipeline at the moment

we are rendering hiddenline passes for a HiDef job, and when you render 
locally
the hiddenline renderer does it's 'tile and assemble' trick, and kindly 
renders bits of the
interface into the tiles!!!!

we have now got knacky windows boxes with geforce cards for the guys to 
render their opngl passes

(we have custom mental ray based renderfarm, so farming the hidden line 
isn't an option!)

a

adrian wyer
head of 3d
milltv
adrian(at)the-mill.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick" <nick.petit(at)gmail.com>
To: <xsi(at)softimage.com>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:11 AM
Subject: Linux and openGL batch renders


> Can anyone confirm a few things?
>
> You can't actually batch the openGL renders even if you set up your
> render options to render openGL? You need to xsi -uiscript... Is this
> a Linux limitation?
>
> when you render openGL with the openGL renderer, on Linux, if you set
> the res really high and the progress bar sits on top of the currently
> rendering viewport, it captures the progress bar (or introduces visual
> artifacts on the captured frames where the progress bar sits).
>
> Wasn't the new openGL render mode meant to circumvent all these
> problems? Don't we currently have proper software openGL rendering
> capabilities? How do you farm these kind of renders to videocard-less
> boxes on a farm?
>
> cheers!
>
> Nick.
>
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