That's quite a good idea. It'd have to be an option, though because it would
break if you were using it to render on several machines, one of the main
uses for the skip option. I also like to see what's broken and where the
next morning.
I could add a cleanup button too.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Joe Laffey
> Sent: 28 June 2006 03:03
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: a little help with rendering
>
> 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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