Thanks all, Interesting thoughts. And good idea making archives. Also very nice trick to override the render manager.
The render farm is Foxrenderfarm and they should be about to update to Softimage to 2014 - and latest Arnold, so I'm waiting for them now. - If they can't get it upgraded for my first project (I got three), then I'm gonna Bruteforce/Mirko-render it ;) This should teach me to not do productions in new versions if I don't have to. Cheers! P On 06/07/2013, at 21.15, Andy Jones <andy.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: > You may also want to consider exporting .mi files and having your farm > service render using mr standalone if they have it. Or you could possibly do > something similar with stand-ins/archives. There are often similar workflows > for other renderers. > > And just a not on the 5 render nodes from command line, if you use a > different renderer than mental ray, or are doing non-mental ray processing, > you can run unlimited command line instances using the "-processing" flag. I > haven't done it myself, but I suspect using vray with -processing can be > pretty cost effective, since you get some rendernodes with your interactive > license (right?) > > > > On Friday, July 5, 2013, Manny Papamanos wrote: > Converting a scene is wasted time imo and may yield bad results at render due > to passes and data that doesn’t port over. > Personally, I would override the render manager and just render with > xsibatch –render [“scenepath”] –skip > in a command prompt. > You can run on 5 separate terminals to one SI license. > > > Manny Papamanos > Autodesk Softimage and MotionBuilder Support > > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Rob Chapman > Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 8:31 AM > To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > Subject: Re: 2014-2013 > > or try an earlier .xsi version export of the scene made into a model...? > > On 5 July 2013 12:41, Sandy Sutherland > <sandy.mailli...@gmail.com<mailto:sandy.mailli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Well you could write out caches - then export obj of geometry - go into the > previous Softimage, import the obj - load the cache onto it and redo the > texture - UV should go with the obj - camera you could try fbx. > > S. > > > > On 2013/07/05 12:38 PM, Pingo van der Brinkloev wrote: > I don't evern have caches. This scene is so simple. I'm using 2 texture maps > and everything else is super simple animation and geo. > > Isn't there a cheat? Somehow to get soft to think it's a 2013 scene? > > P > > On 05/07/2013, at 12.33, Sandy Sutherland > <sandy.mailli...@gmail.com<mailto:sandy.mailli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >
