What's the easiest way to link a File Cache node to a ROP output I can send to Deadline?

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Sept. 4, 2019 1:59 p.m.

…so that I can easily cache locally or on the farm according to what strikes my fancy at the moment?

Sept. 8, 2019 3:13 a.m.

you can use a rop to farm, then channel reference its output, eg:

`chs("../rop_geometry1/sopoutput")`

Filecache doesn't seem to be supported by hbatch, I get this error:
Couldn't find renderer /obj/geo1/filecache1
when running this command:

/home/cpb/Desktop/farm/hfs/hfs17.5.364/bin/hbatch -c "render -V /obj/geo1/filecache1" -c  "quit" /home/cpb/Desktop/test/delme_190908_170527075339.hip

Sept. 8, 2019 3:16 a.m.

nowait: you can farm the rop node inside the filecache without unlocking it.

Sept. 8, 2019 3:30 a.m.

you can also use Fetch ROP to fetch ROP from inside to build larger dependency networks

Tomas Slancik
FX Supervisor
Method Studios, NY

Oct. 1, 2019 3:20 p.m.

Thanks everyone, I ended up creating a preset for my ROP geometry node with:

SOP path:

`opinputpath(opinputpath(".",-1),0)`

Output file:

`chs(opinputpath(".",-1)+"/file")`

…and my fileCache node as spare input 0. Works pretty well!

                    
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