Re: OTish: Splish Roadmap

Date : Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:49:43 +0100
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Ahmidou Lyazidi" <ahmidou.xsi(at)gmail.com>
Subject : Re: OTish: Splish Roadmap
Thanks for the infos Alan

2008/2/8, kim aldis <xsi(at)kim-aldis.co.uk>:
Just out of curiosity Alan, and I know we talked about this, do you split
the render between machines or have them query the database for next frame
to render?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Alan Jones
> Sent: 08 February 2008 15:17
> To: xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: OTish: Splish Roadmap
>
> Hi All,
>
> I know this is a bit off-topic, but thought it may be useful to some,
> and ideally encourage a bit of feedback from
> potential users/developers.
>
> I've set out a roadmap for the trip to version 1 of Splish (i.e. a
> prebuilt release with installers and all that good stuff.
> This should give you all an idea of what's coming, as well as the
> chance to suggest anything which you feel is
> important and missing. It does include a bit of developer specific
> information, but also an idea of what's being
> added/changed.
>
> Main features already available are:
> * Postgresql database backend
> * User based rendernode resource balancing
> * Priorities (including multiple priorities)
> * Auto-split of tasks if renderer crashes so it doesn't re-render
> successful frames
> * Supports any command-line based renderer or renderers that support
> automation plugins in a language that can read environment variables.
> * XSI support - passes and rendertrees.  (excluding wireframe renderer)
> * linux, windows and osx - though doesn't yet fully support a
> cross-platform job (i.e. you can't yet run xsi jobs on windows and
> linux simultaneously - though it can in cases where the file path is
> identical)
>
>  Here's the roadplan showing what will be added to these features
> http://splish.sourceforge.net/?q=node/4
>
> Feel free to get in touch if you have any suggestions or questions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
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