Softimage:caching without rendering

[Augustronic]

Hello,

is there a possibiliy to let rr distribute a scene to the farm just for caching iceclouds.
We would like to avoid rendering.
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Have a nice day!
Aloha Achim

[schoenberger]

Hi

You need to write your own render script and render config for that.
Use the file RR\render_apps\_config\3D01__Softimage__2011.cfg as source and change the renderer name.
Then you probably need to set the ice could name as Camera or Layer name on submission.
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

[bloogyct]

We are doing just this - we have a script that allows us to select models then when we run it, it writes a .sh (linux farm nodes) that runs XSIBATCH.bin and passes data to a python script that opens a scene and caches ice clouds based on groups, it then deletes and replaces the live ice clouds with empty ones, that it reads the caches back onto - when finished it saves out models. I can send you the python script that we have written to cache and also the one used to start the caching.

S.

[knekke]

Hi,

I'm just thinking of implementing a workflow for caching on the farm, and for lack of experience with it I am not quite sure what would be the best approach.
A basic question is: Do I want a client per scene, or per object? (assuming I have more than one object that needs to be cached)
And what would be the best way to generate the CacheObjectsIntoFile command? From taking a first look at it I would pretty much like to intercept the write-button from the cache manager, so that I can use the gui to setup attributes and stuff. Is that possible?
If someone could share a bit of wisdom it would me much appreciated

cheers,
Thomas