This is when an Autodesk dev must appear, to help with this issues. Now that they put to sleep Softimage; at least give help to the troubles the student/edu versions have.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jon Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your replies. > Thanks Ben for the suggestion, unfortunately myself nor students have > admin rights to be able to run .exe files > The student has rolled up her sleeves and laboriously exported her scenes. > As a result the project has suffered > Thanks, > Jon > > > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Angus Davidson <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> 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]> >> Reply-To: "[email protected]" < >> [email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014 at 5:34 PM >> To: "[email protected]" <[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]<[email protected]>] >> *On Behalf Of *Siew Yi Liang >> *Sent:* Sunday, April 27, 2014 7:12 AM >> *To:* [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]> 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]> >>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" < >>> [email protected]> >>> Date: Saturday 26 April 2014 at 12:51 PM >>> To: "[email protected]" <[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]> 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. 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