Re: a little help with rendering

["Alan Jones" <skyphyr(at)gmail.com>]

Hi Joe,

128bytes is sufficient to grab these files :-) they're all exactly 128
- though I too delete everything smaller. Still keeping it the
smallest possible limits the possibility of damage.

Cheers,

Alan.

On 6/28/06, Joe Laffey <joe(at)laffey.tv> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, kim aldis wrote:
>
> > A little plugin I've been meaning to drop on y'all for a while. It creates
> > and optionally runs .bat files for rendering. Does groups too.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.kim-aldis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content
> > <http://www.kim-aldis.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Ite
> > mid=59> &task=view&id=44&Itemid=59
>
>
> Kim, thanks. This looks great. There is one thing that would make a nice
> addition, if posible: when you render using skip frames XSI creates a very
> small file when it first starts rendering (like <512byte). This file has
> the name and number of the current frame. If the frame fails to render
> (crashes, etc.) it leaves that file in place. The presence of this file
> prevents that frame from being rendered when using skip frames.
>
> So what I have been doing is using a simple perl script to scan the
> directory and delete any files < 512 bytes. I run this after each call to
> xsibatch. So I no the cruft is always cleaned up. I don't know if it would
> be possible for your plugin to do this or not. If so, that would be great.
>
> BTW, I am happy to share the perl program, but it is a hack right now. You
> call it with the name of a directory, and it deletes any file in that
> directory that is smaller than 512bytes. This could be dangerous if used
> wrong ;-). If anyone wants it I can post a link.
>
> Thanks again,
>
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