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Qube! => Jobtypes and Applications => Topic started by: mdonovan on February 29, 2012, 04:43:04 PM

Title: Softimage / Realflow - Not updating rfMesh
Post by: mdonovan on February 29, 2012, 04:43:04 PM

When rendering a realflow mesh using softimage and Qube, the rfMesh does not update. If your scene is 45 frames long, you will get whatever frame you saved your scene at 45 times. 

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Title: Re: Softimage / Realflow - Not updating rfMesh
Post by: jburk on March 02, 2012, 08:27:31 PM

Are you splitting the render up across multiple machines?

Try submitting the job with "XSI Batchrender" as 1 subjob, and set the 'Range Execution" mode to 1 partition, so that you get 1 agenda item (1 "frame") that is comprised of the entire frame range, as in "1-45".

That way, 1 machine will pick up the job, and solve the mesh for frames 1-45 in one continuous pass.

Title: Re: Softimage / Realflow - Not updating rfMesh
Post by: mdonovan on March 05, 2012, 05:50:32 PM

no dice ... the scene does not update ..it stays on the frame that you were on when you submitted the job.

Here is a snippent from Qube

<SNIP>
-scene          : //data.smoke.nyc/store/ifs/jobs/2012_Jobs/listerine_zero_sm56798/3D/work/xsi/xsi_listerine_zero/Scenes/shot_1_galaxy/shot1_galaxy_v1.scn
cmdline         : "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\bin\XSIBATCH.exe"  -r -continue -s QB_FRAME_START,QB_FRAME_END,QB_FRAME_STEP -scene "//data.smoke.nyc/store/ifs/jobs/2012_Jobs/listerine_zero_sm56798/3D/work/xsi/xsi_listerine_zero/Scenes/shot_1_galaxy/shot1_galaxy_v1.scn"
range           : 31-40x1
rangeExecution  : partitions:1
rangePartitions : 1
simpleCmdType   : XSI BatchRender
xsiExe          : C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Softimage 2012 SP1\Application\bin\XSIBATCH.exe
<SNIP>