Unfortunately its somewhat like a virus as well. Any scene that get touched by the free student version and you just can’t get rid of the restrictions. We had tremendous issues with this over the last few years.
You can get around it somewhat via render farms, but it doesn’t help if the student is trying to render on their own workstation. From: Schoenberger <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014 at 5:34 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render- Any workarounds > I have never experienced this issue when rendering Me too, but I learned that there is a difference between EDU version and the free download student version. The free version does not allow to start XSIBatch. And the EDU/commercial cannot load scene files created by the free version. Holger Schönberger technical director The day has 24 hours, if that does not suffice, I will take the night ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Siew Yi Liang Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 7:12 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render- Any workarounds For the record, I have never experienced this issue when rendering via the command line when on the student versions, whether XSI/Maya. For the render farm here my school uses Muster which allows us to setup a custom 'template' (that's what they call it) that lets me modify what actual command is sent to the nodes across the farm, so for some cases where I had a problematic scene I just used render/xsibatch commands for the maya/XSI template, bypassing Muster's GUI completely. If RR allows for something like this, might be worth looking into... Yours sincerely, Siew Yi Liang On 4/26/2014 5:12 AM, Ben Beckett wrote: Does this work just a idea good luck put the following code into a Nopepad .txt change the .txt to .exe . add your file path and the pass name. run the file @echo off call "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\bin\setenv.bat" "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\bin\XSIBatch.exe" %* xsibatch -r -scene "Filepath\#######.scn" -pass "PassName" -verbose "full" On 26 April 2014 12:08, Angus Davidson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: No worries. I haven’t tried it on Maya. I seem to recall when I was grumbling to Graham about it a few years back he did mention that it was across the board I could be wrong though. From: Jon Hunt <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Saturday 26 April 2014 at 12:51 PM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Free Student version of Softimage - Doesn't allow batch render - Any workarounds Thanks for the response Angus, The student has a 3 minute film to render, each scene has 70 or so reference models. When you load each scene you have to press OK this many times to the dialogue box that says its been created in a student version. Absolute hindrance. Got a fix but its a good 20 minute fix per shot just to be able to render... Hate asking this but I wonder if this is the the same with Maya? If so, I shall definatley need to start looking at our licensing. Thanks, Jon On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Jon This is the major reason why we switched to the arc Licences. The EDU, Commercial and the Free Student version all had interop issues. The worst begin the contamination from the free version. What we do now is allow the students to bring in their own workstations and we lend them a licences for the duration of the course. That way we ensure that we are all on the same version,. Its bloody stupid that we have to do that . But its the only way we could practically not run into batch render issues. This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. 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