Re: changing an image path while rendering

Date : Fri, 9 May 2008 18:44:22 -0400
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "David Barosin" <dbarosin(at)gmail.com>
Subject : Re: changing an image path while rendering
I didn't try that but I went through a long list of unsuccessful tricks before I finally got it to behave.  It was simply a matter of setting the clip to load into memory rather than read from disk.  Somewhat counter to what I assumed would work but I guess that's why it took as long as it did.   I figured caching in ram was the crux of the matter but hey...

Thanks Raffaele for the tip though.

Cheers!
 -Dave




On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Raffaele Fragapane <raffsxsilist(at)googlemail.com> wrote:
This might sound somewhat muffled because I'm talking out of my arse, but have you tried forcing a refresh using the clips' EvaluateAt method at the current frame? It should do the trick.


On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 6:59 PM, David Barosin <dbarosin(at)gmail.com> wrote:
I've made an event that changes the path of an image source on each frame of a render.  I'm having trouble getting the image to refresh (reload) after the change.  It refreshed fine in the UI if I keep a ppg open that displays the image. 

Does anyone know of a trick to force an image to be reloaded prior to a render.

Thanks,
 -Dave



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