+11 for RR.
Ed Harriss http://www.EdHarriss.com Do you need a CG job? http://www.GetA3DJob.com From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of ThomasV Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:00 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Trying out backburner +1 ! Eric Turman <i.anima...@gmail.com<mailto:i.anima...@gmail.com>> hat am 30. August 2012 um 15:29 geschrieben: We do not run linux, but we have customized RR pre-and-post-render quite a bit. We are able to have RR automatically reconnect to different workgroups that contain different releases of third party renderers associated with a project per render job. And Holger has always been responsive to our questions. We've been using RR for many years now. I can not say enough good things about it. -=Eric On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com<mailto:sander...@gmail.com>> wrote: years ago I tested it... though. " Last Update: 2008-02-22" :) On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Andreas Bystrom <andreas.byst...@gmail.com<mailto:andreas.byst...@gmail.com>> wrote: yes I was being ironic about alfred, it looks like it was made during the toystory 1 days and hasn't been touched since.. but no, not using tractor here.. out of curiosity have you had a look at alan jones opensource renderfarm manager: http://sourceforge.net/projects/splish/ On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com<mailto:sander...@gmail.com>> wrote: No, Tractor. Alfred is the old crappy stuff, Tractor is the new shiny thing with a Python API :) Are you guys using it? Regards Stefan On Thursday, August 30, 2012, Andreas Bystrom wrote: alfred.... On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com<mailto:sander...@gmail.com>> wrote: I gave up. Didn't even work with maya, Linux permission swamp. So anyone using tractor? We are about to switch to a new dispatcher since rush is... Let's just say that it hasn't changed much the last 5 years. So we are testing everything out there. Best regards Stefan On Wednesday, August 29, 2012, Stefan Andersson wrote: this is from the log file 2012/08/29 11:41:33 INF Receiving new job from 192.168.0.102 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF Job 'jobName' received and ready 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF Launching 'Command Line Tool' 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF New task assigned: 1 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF [ServerMessage]ProcessStarted processId=7397 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF No $home variable set. 2012/08/29 11:41:34 ERR Task error: Cmdjob adapter: Process exit abnormally,Exit code is 1 2012/08/29 11:41:34 ERR Cmdjob adapter: Process exit abnormally,Exit code is 1 2012/08/29 11:41:34 INF Application is down On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Stefan Andersson <sander...@gmail.com<mailto:sander...@gmail.com>> wrote: yes, http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=18699866&linkID=9242259 the submit is commandline based, so it will work with just about any program. All I get is this error message (from the manager, carl is the slave): carl Cmdjob adapter: Process exit abnormally,Exit code is 1 Here is the submit command. /usr/discreet/backburner/cmdjob -jobName:SoftimageRender_2 -workpath:/usr/discreet/backburner -logPath:/tmp -group:Softimage -progress -userRights -manager: moe.madcrew.se<http://moe.madcrew.se> "/usr/Softimage/Softimage_2012.SAP/Application/bin/xsibatch" -r -scene "/madcrew/projects/TESTING_0000/000_dev/000_010_DEV/3d/scenes/light/000_010_light_005a_sa.scn" -startframe 401 -endframe 402 -pass bea_clean -script "/madcrew/applications/madcrew/skull/lib/madcrew/render/softimage_render_path.py" -lang Python regards stefan On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com<mailto:s...@tidbit-images.com>> wrote: There is Backburner on Linux? Anyone been able to use it on Linux? I've been trying to get it up and running, and so far I can submit jobs.... but it never starts to render... errrrrgh.. So if anyone have any helpful tips it would be most welcome. /s -- ------------------------------ ------------- Stefan Kubicek Co-founder ------------------------------ ------------- keyvis digital imagery Wehrgasse 9 - Grüner Hof 1050 Vienna Austria Phone: +43/699/12614231 --- www.keyvis.at<http://www.keyvis.at> ste...@keyvis.at<mailto:ste...@keyvis.at> --- -- This email and its attachments are --confidential and for the recipient only-- -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com - -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- Andreas Byström Lighting TD - Weta Digital -- stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com -- -=T=-
