HughMacdonald

Thanks Peter, much appreciated.

The reason I was trying to do it in batch mode was that this is for a command-line (outside of Python) script to send a .hip to the farm to generate .ifd files and then render them. I wanted to allow a command-line option to override the final files that were being generated. I've actually since shifted this code from hbatch over to hython, which is a little easier to do things in!

Having a dig around in Hython, it appears that the parameter in question is “vm_picture”.


Thanks for the direction on this.

Hi,

I'm trying to do some automation using hbatch, and I've come across a bit of an issue when trying to override the output files when calling the ‘render’ command.

When I call:

render -f 1 10 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.$F4.exr mantra1

And look in the created .ifd files, each .ifd file is set to render to /path/to/myNewRenders.0001.exr, because, I'm assuming, the variable substitution happens when calling the ‘render’ command, when the frame context is 1.

Alternatively, I've tried:

render -f 1 10 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.\$F4.exr mantra1

Which writes “/path/to/myNewRenders.$F4.exr” into the .ifd files, which would sound right to me, but when I pass this .ifd file into mantra to have it rendered, it, once again, evaluates the frame as 1, giving me a resulting file of /path/to/myNewRenders.0001.exr

Any idea how I can do this without calling something like:


render -f 1 1 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0001.exr mantra1
render -f 2 2 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0002.exr mantra1
render -f 3 3 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0003.exr mantra1
render -f 4 4 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0004.exr mantra1
render -f 5 5 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0005.exr mantra1
render -f 6 6 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0006.exr mantra1
render -f 7 7 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0007.exr mantra1
render -f 8 8 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0008.exr mantra1
render -f 9 9 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0009.exr mantra1
render -f 10 10 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0010.exr mantra1


Thanks