I've searched but had no luck trying to figure out the Background Render option on the ROP output driver / DOP I/O node. I just can't get it to process anything. If I render the same thing with the regular render button it pumps out a sequence of Bgeo files - no problem.
Is there any trick to get this bad boy working?
Seems like it would be awesome to have this caching while I continue to work in Houdini.
SideFx support helped me figure out the issue: If the file paths for your files have a space between words, hbatch will not run and your background render won't do anything.
So if your file path is similar to #1, you need to remove the space between the words to look like #2:
Luke Letellier SideFx support helped me figure out the issue: If the file paths for your files have a space between words, hbatch will not run and your background render won't do anything.
So if your file path is similar to #1, you need to remove the space between the words to look like #2: