Hi, RoyalRender now has a "keep open" option for the scene you send it, so even if you are sending it one frame at a time rather than a bunch it should wait until you explicitly send it another scene before flushing the current one!
Cheers Lawrence > On 20 May 2016, at 21:13, Ed Manning <etmth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not Maya's fault. It's how the render manager, in this case Royal, has > its options set. > > There is something bad about Maya and certain read/write operations over > network, but I don't think this is that. > > Unless you're trying to render on Windows render nodes to a Linux or OS X > server running a bad SMB stack. > > In which case you might as well be in the Sarlacc Pit. > > > >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Sven Constable <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> >> wrote: >> Maya also loads the scene at every frame? I was thinking only 3dsmax had >> this awful behavior. If they would know how elegant softimage batch >> rendering actually is… >> >> >> >> >> >> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ed Manning >> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 9:15 PM >> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >> Subject: Re: Maya the server destroyer >> >> >> >> use the "render local" option, which writes the images to a temp directory >> on the render machines, then copies to the server. >> set chunk size to a large number to minimize the number of times the scene >> has to be loaded by the network machines >> turn off any unnecessary aovs >> try to set up local simulation caches on the render machines >> don't know what renderer you're using, but most can save you a lot of disk >> read if you convert all textures to tiled mipmapped versions >> for that matter, you might want to set up local texture caches too. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Parish <porkypar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> My Maya misery continues.. >> >> >> >> We can't seem to be able to submit jobs without bringing the server to its >> knees. Anything with simulation or large scenes just jams everything up. I >> can only really submit to 3 machines. >> >> >> >> We're using Royal Render.. >> >> >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Steve P >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. >> >> >> >> >> ------ >> Softimage Mailing List. >> To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with >> "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
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