you can use the processing flag to have softimage disregard the license check, and then launch the render
example xsibatch -processing -w "workgroup1;workgroup2" && xsibatch -render bla bla bla bla thats how I had my commanlines generated. regards stefan On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Simon van de Lagemaat <[email protected]> wrote: > My pipeline guy has a question for the list regarding workgroups and > xsibatch. Thinking maybe someone here has some info that could help us. > > > > "we have a set of workgroups for si, > > when launching an interactive si session > we use xsi -w "worgroups" -run > and all works as expected. > > now when I try to do the same for rendering > xsibatch -render 'filename', flags, -w 'workgroups' > > soft ignores the workgroups, and loads without the plugins, (unless the same > user has launched an interactive session) > > seems that the -render flag sort of cancels the -w flag > > this is done on linux (centos 6.2, soft 2012.sap) > > is there a way to launch the render with the workgroups?" > > Cheers > > -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com

