Hi Andy,
The few I tried in the past were Muster and RenderQ and when
BatchServe was online I looked into it but didn't have time to set it
up.
It's a shame the majority of these render managers out there aren't
webserver based, done in something popular like PHP with MySQL on
Apache, with easily-portable/compilable tiny clients.
Surely if it was webserver-based, at least it'd be easy to get the
server up and running regardless of the host OS, and if the client was
tiny it'd make it easy to port to various OS's with little effort.
I'll look into Splish. Thanks Alan J.
Cheers,
-- Alan
On Jan 11, 2008 11:32 AM, Andy Jones <andy(at)thefront.com> wrote:
> Alan F.,
>
> I would probably recommend Splish. That's a blind recommendation, since I
> haven't tried it (haven't actually tried any of them -- just investigated a
> lot), but you've got Alan J. right here. And I know he had already used
> DrQueue before he developed Splish. Anyway, that's what I'd try first. I
> don't know if anyone has ever successfully used XSI with Condor. I've just
> heard one person say they tried it and couldn't get it working.
>
> What are the others you've tried?
>
> - Andy
>
>
>
> On 1/11/08, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > That'd be pretty simple to do with Splish - though I've not yet put
> together a
> > windows binary, but it can run in a pure windows/pure osx/pure linux
> > environment.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > On Jan 11, 2008 4:24 AM, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com > wrote:
> > > 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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