Terragen Batch Renders ~ what exists ?

[cyphyr]

I'm away for the season soon and I'd like to set up a stack of renders to run in my absence. Any good tools been developed for this?
I remember someone had a beta render controler theyed developed for TG9.x that theyed hacked to work under TG2, how did that develop?
Thanks
Richard

[neon22]

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=5251.0
stack em high

[cyphyr]

Thanks neon
I had seen this (I forgot I had commented on it too) I shied away because of alll the extra installs needed python etc. But I dove in and yes it looks like it dose exactly what it says on the tin ! Thanks
Richard

<EDIT>
Ok I ran a couple of tests and the tgd file loads, all the info displayed looks correct but all that is rendered out is the default opening scene from Terragen.
Any idea where I went wrong?
</EDIT>

[neon22]

Hmmm. no idea.. sorry.
Any more clues ??

[cyphyr]

Is there a log file that's generated during render, I dont know where else to look for clues.
thanks
richard

[neon22]

First try looking at the tgd_batch.bat file. This is created by the program and is then just called to start the render.
It should be referencing the tgd you want rendered.
The path to terragen should also be correct.
Here is a sample:

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set TERRAGEN_PATH=C:/Program Files/Planetside Software/Terragen 2 Deep Edition (Beta)
set RENDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\MarkS\Desktop\Terrains
cd "C:\Documents and Settings\MarkS\Desktop\Terrains"
"%TERRAGEN_PATH%\tgdcli" -p "tmpterrain_following_cloud.tgd" -hide -exit -r -f 1 -o "%RENDIR%\terrain_following_cloud.0001.bmp"