BTW Eric,
Does RR let you produce approval frames?
In other words, you render say 3 frames from a scene, and an e-mail is
sent to you that the said frames are rendered and awaiting approval to
complete the job.
Passes are now implemented in EnFusion.
If you want something implemented, they will implement it.
The way I see it, the two solutions have respective advantages. RR is
created by someone with a 3D background, where EnFuzion comes from large
scale enterprise applications.
Our main requirement was a rock solid backbone that would scale
painlessly, and with the niceties to come later (as they have been). RR
appears ready to go, out of the box and perhaps a more suitable solution
for average sized facilities.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Eric Lampi
Sent: July 28, 2006 3:48 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: Asset/Queue Management (was Royal Render/DrQueue)
Actually, I miss-spoke before. Enfuzion was the one I
was using before I went somewhere that had RR. In my
opinion, it's really basic and isn't even as good as
batchserv, and it's lightyears behind RR. The front
end is clunky, and feedback on what you are doing is
very poor in comparison.
If you're managing a job with lots of passes, RR is a
dream come true. I can think of a bunch of jobs that
I spent a lot of time checking frames by opening them
up in flipbooks and writing down bad frames,
resubmitting them. It sucks. RR is the first thing
that handles that mess intelligently. Delete the
frame from the image gallery, then just tell RR to
look for missing frames, and it's done - go get
coffee...
Last night they had some problems with the workgroup
being set. So instead of having to do it on every
machine (there are 28 of them) there's a mode where
you can set the workgroup for one, and it sets it for
all of them. Little things like that are just damned
smart.
It's almost like something SoftImage wrote themselves,
it just works and it makes sense, just like XSI.
E
--- Andre DeAngelis <andre.deangelis(at)ubisoft.com>
wrote:
> For render Cue management, definitely take a look at
> EnFuzion. The
> question is how many render nodes are you looking
> at, because EnFuzion
> might be overkill for 24 render nodes.
>
>
>
> The guys there customized EnFuzion for us, writing
> an XSI connection as
> well as one for Fusion 5, and we are really pleased
> with it.
>
>
>
> http://www.axceleon.com/
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> Of Bruce MacDougall
> Sent: July 28, 2006 2:22 PM
> To: XSI
> Subject: Asset/Queue Management (was Royal
> Render/DrQueue)
>
>
>
> I too am looking for Asset and Queue Management
> tools, for a team of
> around 24 artists plus their keepers (direction ,
> coordination, etc),
> working on an episodic production. Windows
> workstations and farm.
>
>
>
> Does anyone out there have experiences to relate
> regarding the following
> products? (I've been given a list - some may not be
> appropriate)
>
>
>
> "Asset managers":
>
>
>
> - Alienbrain
>
> - Deep Exploration
>
> - GDI | Explorer
>
> - Hardcat
>
> - North Plains Telescope
>
> - Interwoven
>
> - DAX
>
> - DataFrameworks
>
>
>
> Queue Managers:
>
>
>
> - Deadline
>
> - Qube!
>
> - Smedge3
>
> - LSF
>
> - Condor
>
> - Rush
>
> - No need to mention Royal Render - I've already
> been reading the raves
> for some time now, and we are looking at it.
>
>
>
> Any applications that aren't on the list that you
> feel should be there?
>
> I'd also welcome any thoughts about asset management
> philosophies,
> methodologies, crucial features, nice features,
> unnecessary features,
> etc.
>
>
>
> Thanks for opening your brains!
>
>
>
> Bruce MacDougall
> Northwest Imaging & FX
>
>
>
>
>
>
Freelance 3-D Animator, F/X Artist
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