"lets you render using 3rd party renderers without pulling the limited xsibatch tokens"
Sorry, guys, but this is too huge a discovery to let sink in this thread! GREAT find Andy! It would never occur to me that -processing could be exploited for render purposes. I imagine this loophole will be closed up double-quick though, now that it's been flagged! DAN On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Andy Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > Sort of as an aside, we were talking license counts the other day and > discovered the "-processing" license flag. If you didn't know about this, > it seems to allow you to not only process scenes with an arbitrary number > of Softimage instances, but also lets you render using 3rd party renderers > without pulling the limited xsibatch tokens. From what I can tell, you > essentially have unlimited command line Softimages, but a fixed number of > mental rays. Good news for people looking at 3rd party renderers, as you > don't have to factor in the cost of bundled mental ray as you expand your > farm, and you don't have to worry about implementing an .ass file pipeline > (unless you want to for other reasons). I'm not sure it's actually changed > anything in terms of what we would have bought, as we've got a fair number > of xsibatch already, but it's just nice to know, and it's making it much > easier to roll out a hybrid workflow. > >
