I thought the Wedge ROP could be used as sort of a batch Flipbook renderer.
But in this tutorial you need to define a SOP path which points to either a specific piece of geometry or vdb.
https://vimeo.com/182534050 [vimeo.com]


And watching towards the end of this tutorial
https://archive.sidefx.com/images/stories/tutorials/wedge_ROP/wedge.mov [archive.sidefx.com]

I see you can also use a Mantra node as an Output Driver to create fully rendered images.

But, what would be even more useful (and much quicker)is to render out just the scene previews or screen grabs, similar to the way the Flipbook works.

Especially since the primary use of the Wedge ROP is to check your simulations.
Any Houdini experts know if there is a way to do this?

eco_bach
I thought the Wedge ROP could be used as sort of a batch Flipbook renderer.
But in this tutorial you need to define a SOP path which points to either a specific piece of geometry or vdb.
https://vimeo.com/182534050 [vimeo.com]


And watching towards the end of this tutorial
https://archive.sidefx.com/images/stories/tutorials/wedge_ROP/wedge.mov [archive.sidefx.com]

I see you can also use a Mantra node as an Output Driver to create fully rendered images.

But, what would be even more useful (and much quicker)is to render out just the scene previews or screen grabs, similar to the way the Flipbook works.

Especially since the primary use of the Wedge ROP is to check your simulations.
Any Houdini experts know if there is a way to do this?

I am going to disagree its faster to use flipbook, depending on scene complexity it could be troublesome as you will need to have the display flags set and redraw all the geometry, could get heavy very quickly. Better would be to have the wedge ROP upgraded to the file cache sop ( RFE IN ) , then wrap it into a tool for a farm and then maybe use Quicktime / Nuke to Autobuild a take for dailies with the renders.

Rob