hello guys

i want to know how can we render ifd sequence from mantra node , especially i want to render a pyro cache

as per my littel knowledge, what i know is we have to have a pyro sim bgeo cachce and sperate ifd cache which we can refer by “Delay load shader” which reduces the rendering time, if my knowledge is wrong about this can some one please guide me to the right direction .

You need to use Engine and a render manager like HQ to distribute the IFD to various machines to render. OR you can write some python and have a machine render the ifd sequence of files or in a shell just use Hbatch to render the rop without opening houdini ie

Notes :- Launch from the command line tools

hbatch myfile.hip

cd /out

render mymantranode

quit = will quit you out of hbatch back into the shell dir


example hbatch code : =

render -f 87 300 -Va1 -s mymantra_rop

Rob

A simple way to load geometry at render is to change your file load from All Geometry to Packed Disk Primitive on the file op