Hi Jeff. I meant 'well documented' inside the defect log of SOFT-9095, for an eventual fix. The defects and feature-requests are accessible by AD staff only.
-manny From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Jeff McFall Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 2:36 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: Rendering crowds on a farm Manny, Just curious - when you say well documented do you mean via forums or is there an active/up to date Autodesk link which covers these kinds of details? I had similar issues early this year and would say that I struggled to find any information for this or other issues other than asking via the forums. Wondering if there is an Autodesk go to location that would be a good place to start when having troubles like this... Apologies if I am missing the obvious Jeff From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Manny Papamanos Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:05 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: RE: Rendering crowds on a farm This is a known issue and well documented. >From my tests at the time, I would repro this if I rendered on several >computers with 'xsibatch -render' and the "-skip" flag. If your render management app is using the same flag internally, it will have the same issue. However, there was no issue when I tested on two computers with: On one: xsibatch -render [path to .scn in quotes] -frames 1,100,2 on the other: xsibatch -render [path to .scn in quotes] -frames 2,100,2 run this on a SI command prompt. Manny Papamanos Autodesk Softimage and MotionBuilder Support From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Andi Farhall Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:01 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Rendering crowds on a farm Hello, having got completely stuffed by crowd texturing and FBX exporting i've taken the fairly drastic measure of not using textured characters and just using a coloured shader, and also reverted to the conventional point cache way of caching rather than using fbx which is much simpler and much quicker.... However..... i'm getting issues when rendering on the farm, i.e all my actors are now a single colour. Load the scene and render it locally and it's fine which makes debugging it rather tricky.... I'm using a technique i saw on Stephen Blairs blog for colouring crowds which works a treat but i can't be sure if the farm is disliking this, but i've added the user attributes to the cache list, i've cached from frame one, rendered from frame one and it still comes out incorrectly. I've tried a get and set for all the custom attributes on the cached cloud, I even locked the farm submission to one machine for the whole sequence and still i'm not getting the goods..... I have spoken to someone from another company who was doing crowd stuff recently and he said they had to render everything locally as the their farm did exactly the same thing. I'm just wondering if there's anything i've missed before i resign myself to rendering everything locally myself. cheers, Andi. ........................................................................... http://www.hackneyeffects.com/ https://vimeo.com/user4174293 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/andi-farhall/b/496/b21 http://www.flickr.com/photos/lord_hackney/ http://spylon.tumblr.com/ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Hackney Effects Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. ------------------------------------------------------------
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