I think most of us can agree this is an annoying feature, but if it were to be removed now, some nasty folks might take it as an invitation.
I don't like this feature as it is, but simply removing it isn't a solution. We need to think of a smart way to always allow render farms to run scripts and drivers by default. Another silly idea: what if we leave this feature on, but only for paths that include the word "download" in addition to the user-defined folders in the preferences? Or keep a history of trusted authors (computer name or ip) and check if the author of a blend has been trusted before? -Greg On 23 May 2014 13:43, Tobias Kummer <supertoi...@gmx.net> wrote: > Had the same problem here with the #frame driver in the Cycles seed > value. Renderfarm just ignored it, and I only noticed it after > rendering. > > On Fri May 23 12:26:46 2014, Paolo Acampora wrote: > > This is an issue at our studio as well, I don't see any rationale in > these > > overly security concerns, it just prevents you to work. > > > > > > 2014-05-23 12:06 GMT+02:00 Vilem Novak <pildano...@post.cz>: > > > >> Hello, > >> I realize how important is the security when .blend files are > distributed, > >> but I thought, is there a way to exclude drivers from the relatively new > >> strict blocking mechanism? > >> > >> To me as animator, it caused allready many problems. > >> Last is ruining several days of rendertime on a renderfarm which has > >> scripts > >> blocked(as is by default!). Actually, it happened to me allready several > >> times- setting up renders, render nodes, and forgetting about some > drivers > >> and the new feature. > >> I realized so far none of the crowd-render farms for blender don't > support > >> scripts on (sheepit, burp). That it of course a logical choice. > >> > >> So the idea is - can there be some check to determine if a driver is > >> actually a python script? If it's using any commands, and not only > >> numerical > >> / logical operators? And then, could such simple drivers be enabled? > >> > >> It would really save my life very often. Now I have to write a script > that > >> bakes all drivers before sending file to render farm... > >> > >> Regards > >> Vilem > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Bf-committers mailing list > >> Bf-committers@blender.org > >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > >> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers