Hi!

Sorry for the beginner question here, in order to save a Houdini licenses while rendering I planned to generate IFD files for my sequences and render them using the mantra in the command prompt.

The ifd files are already generated. I can render them separately using: “mantra -f filename.(FrameNumber).ifd” command but I don't find any info how to start a render that would do all of them at the same time (instead of doing a batch files that would basically restart Mantra all the time for every frame?).

I tried “mantra -f filename.*.ifd” and “mantra -f filename.$F4.ifd” without any sucess so far.

Thanks in advance for helping me out on this!

Have a great day.

Gabriel

Well if your using linux something like, will work. Dont know about wondows

#!/bin/csh -f

set i = 1
while ($i <= 10)
mantra -j 3 -V a -f file.$i.ifd
echo rendering file.$i.ifd
@ i++
end
echo “all done”

R