Hey Alan,
If I wanted to play with it on WinXP at home, where can I find it? I
looked around but had no luck finding win32 binaries or instructions
on how to compile the source to work in Windows. I don't mind if it's
missing a GUI; I'm fine with a CLI.
Cheers,
-- Alan
On Jan 14, 2008 2:45 AM, Alan Jones <skyphyr(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> No worries - the code is already cross-platform - only thing I haven't
> finished implementing as far as cross platform is mixed rendernodes
> (i.e. having windows and linux and mac nodes all rendering the same
> job). Though I have got the pieces in place for it - just a little
> coding left.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
>
> On 1/11/08, Alan Fregtman <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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