Condor? Never heard of that one, but I'm reading on it now. It sounds neat.
This may be slightly off topic, but what (free) distributed render
launcher/manager would you recommend? I tried a few but never found
one that I fell in love with. Any suggestions?
Ideally, I would personally be interested in something that could be
modified partially to adapt beyond typical 3D batch rendering, like
say support for launching RealFlow batch computations.. or whatever
else I wanted. Something with some kind of modular approach would
rock.
Best regards,
-- Alan
ps: DrQueue sounded great, but their lack of an up-to-date Win32
precompiled binary put me off from using it. I realise in a company
one can spare to have one or more Linux machines, but at home I'm all
Windows. :/
On Jan 10, 2008 7:56 PM, Andy Jones <andy(at)thefront.com> wrote:
> I doubt downloading BatchServe is something anyone should really be doing at
> this point, unless you're looking for a coding challenge. Getting it
> working with version 6 isn't particularly easy and requires some knowledge
> of php and vbscript. And the BatchServe code isn't particularly well
> organized. The version of it we use here isn't really the same as
> BatchServe as it was released by Soft anymore. The front end looks the
> same, but we've mostly rewritten the client side. We've been gradually
> morphing it into something more open over the years. The goal is to have it
> be cross-platform and running mostly on Python (except whatever scripts have
> to be run out of NetView I guess). If it ever matures to the point that it
> would be useful to other people, we'll probably just post our code
> somewhere. At the moment, it's in between states, so releasing code
> wouldn't make much sense anyway.
>
> There are some other free render managers out there. Splish. DrQueue.
> Condor? The list goes on...
>
> - Andy
>
>
>
> On 1/10/08, Alan Fregtman < alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > While we're on the topic... where has BatchServe gone?
> >
> > http://softimage.com/downloads/XSI_Advanced/default.aspx
> >
> > I don't see it anywhere. Is it discontinued, hidden or what? Where can
> > I grab whatever the last version was?
> > Anyone care to upload it to mediafire.com? (assuming it doesn't
> > infringe copyright to do so.)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > -- Alan
> >
> >
> > On Jan 10, 2008 1:12 PM, Andy Jones <andy(at)thefront.com> wrote:
> > > Excellent. Thanks, Stephen.
> > >
> > > - Andy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/10/08, Stephen Blair < Stephen_Blair(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I have seen it.
> > > >
> > > > If I have IE7, then in a floating NetView window, I cannot select from
> a
> > > dropdown list using the mouse.
> > > > I can use the mouse to drop down the list, then I can use the keyboard
> to
> > > select.
> > > >
> > > > The problem does not occur in an embedded NetView window.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of
> > > Andy Jones
> > > > Sent: Thu 10 January 2008 4:52 AM
> > > > To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> > > > Subject: Netview form controls (pull-down box) not working?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone seen this? I've been working on getting BatchServe running
> > > with XSI 6.5, and I noticed that the pull-down boxes don't allow me to
> > > switch items. I checked on a normal internet page (an example of simple
> use
> > > of the html form pull-down menu control) and found the same problem. I
> > > didn't realize this until just before I left the office, so I'll have
> more
> > > details about it tomorrow morning, but I thought I'd go ahead and put
> the
> > > feelers out to see if anyone's seen something similar. My best guess at
> > > this point would be that it has to do with the new Internet Explorer.
> I'm
> > > really not a fan of the embedded IE thing. Something about it just
> seems a
> > > little evil.
> > > >
> > > > Also, as long as I'm complaining, can I just say, I'm really REALLY
> hating
> > > not being able to use Python in embedded scripts in NetView pages.
> Would it
> > > make sense to somehow embed a web server in addition to a web browser?
> I've
> > > been thinking about just rolling out Apache on all of our workstations,
> and
> > > having our NetView interaction just work on local web pages, so that the
> > > server-side portions can actually "do" stuff, and can interact with the
> > > machine in straight-up Python. What would be really cool, though, is if
> > > there were a simple, straightforward way, to pass the XSI Application
> object
> > > through a form submission, back to the web server, so that server side
> > > scripts could churn away on objects specific to the particular XSI
> session
> > > where the client page was submitted. Maybe there's some way to do this
> > > through <shudder> COM? Like, I wouldn't really mind a little snippet of
> > > VBScript that just grabs some sort of COM handle out of XSI so that it
> can
> > > be submitted to a form.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe someone's got some other ideas for how I can escape from
> > > VBScript/ActiveX netview hell?
> > > >
> > > > - Andy
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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