Didn't there used to be a commandline switch to have xsibatch list all
the passes in a given scene? I could swear I saw such a thing.
-- Alan
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Tim Leydecker <baueroink(at)gmx.de> wrote:
> How about having a xsibatch command that first of all lists
> all the passes in a scenefile? In a format that eases the
> copy&paste of what´s needed, or might even be good enough
> to dump all sorts of sceneinfo into a textfile?
>
> That´d help in either writting -script files or, as a command
> be ultimatively useable for rendermanagers, as it provides
> info those can then just display and work with, prior to
> rendering, when setting up a render?
>
> I think people are asking about ways to optimize batchrendering
> without having to go into a file via the XSI GUI.
>
> Cheers
>
> tim
>
>
>
> Dan Yargici wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > It's an interesting idea, but unfortunately it still requires you to write
> > the names of all the pass you don't want... so actually makes more work in
> > this instance than writing the name of the one you do want.
> >
> > This is why there needs to be a -notpass switch in addition to the -pass
> one
> > that already exists.
> >
> > DAN
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Carpenter
> <mcarpent(at)softimage.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From the command line:
> > >
> > > xsibatch -render <bob.scn> -script RenderAllPassButThis.vbs
> > >
> > > 'Content of RenderAllPassButThis.vbs
> > > DeleteObj "Passes.<insertPassNameHere>"
> > > 'Repeat as necessary
> > > 'end of script
> > >
> > > The script is executed prior to the render command and any modifications
> > > to the scene are not persisted.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > From the GUI
> > >
> > > Select passes that you want rendered
> > > Render->Render Selected Passes.
> > >
> > > enjoy,
> > >
> > > -matt
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
> > > *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] *On
> > > Behalf Of *mathieu.bertrand(at)hotmail.com
> > > *Posted At:* Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:57 PM
> > > *Posted To:* xsi list
> > > *Conversation:* command line rendering: render all pass except...
> > > *Subject:* RE: command line rendering: render all pass except...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That would work but im looking for an approach that doesnt force me to
> > > save a different scene version every time I want to not render all the
> > > pass...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
> > > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:00:21 -0400
> > > From: byronnash(at)gmail.com
> > > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > Subject: Re: command line rendering: render all pass except...
> > >
> > > I'm on Foundation and I have the same problem when trying to render
> > > passes. I normally override the sequence start/end for the pass I don't
> want
> > > and only render one frame at low quality. That way I can hit "Render All
> > > Passes" and go home for the night. It's not pretty but you could try
> > > something like that in the command line.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Thiago Costa <thiagocosta3d(at)gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, passes should have a "renderable" parameter.
> > > I've suggested that a while ago to Softimage, hope it get into the next
> > > version of the Rendermanager.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 03/04/2008, *Ahmidou Lyazidi* <ahmidou.xsi(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm also missing this feature
> > >
> > > 2008/4/3, mathieu.bertrand(at)hotmail.com <mathieu.bertrand(at)hotmail.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > The title says it all, is there still no way to tell xsibatch to render
> > > all pass except one (or many)?
> > > Smedge just lauches xsibatch nothing more so it gets kind of annoying in
> > > scene with lots of pass having to copy/paste the names of all the pass i
> > > want to render.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
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