Re: syflex | farm rendering

[Sam Cuttriss <sam(at)janimation.com>]

good point, i'll have a tinker with that.

_sam

Sam Cuttriss
Janimation 3D Aficionado

Vincent Fortin wrote:

Just curious… does the syCache operator have the same problem?

 

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sam Cuttriss
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 3:34 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: syflex | farm rendering

 

yeah ive been plotting shapes,
im a stickler for removing unnecessary steps from a procedure though.
and given i already have every single frame cached out using syflex, i really want to hit render and not deal with any suprises.

i think if our pipeline revolved around some kind of automatic point oven rendering it would be a different story.
thanks for the suggestion though.

_sam

Sam Cuttriss
Janimation 3D Aficionado

m i c r o x x wrote:

Not a Syflex solution, but you can use point oven. Export your mesh and in the same scene load it with syflex muted.

Hope that helps.

On 10/12/07, Sam Cuttriss <sam(at)janimation.com> wrote:

syflex appears to update at the end of each frame,
which is fine in the interactive viewport, but on a farm when the viewport doesnt request an update the first frame of each machine is unsimulated.

i notice syflex has an animated feature called update (with one keyframe of value 1 set at frame 1), but i dont see anything logged in the script editor or in the documentation.

i would like to render on the farm just using the syflex cache and not having to save out shapes.
anyone know what command to assess syflex prior to attempting to render anything?

has anyone else noticed this?

thanks
_sam

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Sam Cuttriss
Janimation 3D Aficionado