Dear Sir
Does anyone have an ideas to render a scense in dos command ?
I want to render my scense through a batch file without launch houdini ?
something like csh file in UNIX .


Thanks advanse.


Winnie

Hi Winnie,

Please go to Start -> Programs -> Side Effects Software -> Command Line Tools & it will start a command shell with the Houdini environment initialized.

Here's an example:
hrender -e -d name_of_rop -f 1 100 -i 1 hip_filename.hip
The above assumes the ROP is set up correctly for the render.

Type hrender in the shell for more information on how to use the command.

Cheers!
steven

Dear Steven :
Got it and would I set enviroment first or not ?

Thanks so much .

Winnie

Hi Winnie,

If you use the Command Line Tools, you don't have to initialize any environment. If you were able to type hrender & get the info, everything is fine.

Cheers!
steven

Dear Steven :
I try the command hrender in the Command line Tools ?
But it can not work , the error Code is “ Unkown command ”
Oh,I forget to mation that my houdini run in windows 2K system.


Thanks advances.

Regards,
Winnie

hrender on Windows requires that you run “csh -l” after starting command line tools. If that doesn't work, it probably also requires some of the cygwin tools. To do that, I wrote detailed instructions in a post for this thread:
http://odforce.net/forum/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=1561&s=07329a69f654355b69b6f3b8361b4a1a [odforce.net]

On Win2K it could also be a “PATH” variable problem.
Check if “C:\whereever houdini is installed\bin” is in the path.