Mental ray standalone rendering of XSI scenes is a right royal pain in the
arse simply because you do need a license in order to generate the mi file
in the first place. Which means for each node in the farm you need both a
mental ray license and an XSI license. Or you have to jump through hoops
finding a way to batch up the generation of the mi files.
Some time ago I remember talking with Dave Lajoie about opening up free mi
generation on the command line as a way of easing this bottleneck and he was
quite positive about it. Then he left softimage and it all sort of went
quiet. But I still think it needs looking at, especially now with the way
Maya and Max users seem to be drowing in mental ray licenses.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Bernard Lebel
> Sent: 30 September 2007 22:47
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: MI Generation of files
>
> Ah, I see. To my knowledge, you need at least a batch license, as the
> mi generation is done in XSI, and there is no way to run XSI without
> such a license.[kim:-]
>
>
> Bernard
>
>
>
> On 9/30/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > yes but with Maya MI generation is free, so you can have as many
> > computers as you want generating MI files from Maya.
> >
> >
> > regards
> > stefan
> >
> > On 9/30/07, Bernard Lebel <3dbernard(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 9/30/07, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 1.) Would XSI be able to do the same thing?
> > >
> > > Yes, if I'm not mistaken only Foundation can't do mi generation.
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Bernard
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