Anyone using Royal Render with TG2 ?

[nixx]

Hi again all,

I 'm trying the use Royal Render with TG2, and I think I may have hit a big showstopper. While the machines do render the scenes (as evident by both the RR logs and the active Task Managers), the system fails to write the finished frames to disk.

After looking at the logs, it looks like the problem lies with TG2's sequence coding. The mandatory "%04d" in the filename seems to be the problem; Royal Render uses batch files (created & deleted on the fly per job or frame). But in DOS/Windows Batch, "%0" expands to the full path and filename of the current batch file. So essentially the system is trying to save a file with a name like "RenderedFrame.C:\somefolder\C_rendermachine.bat4d.bmp". Which obviously won't work...

So I thought I 'd ask here if anyone else has tried to use RR with TG2, maybe there's some special configuration or something I 'm missing. By the way, RR works fine for me with Softimage, so in general I think it's set up right.

Thanks,
nick

[Henry Blewer]

See what the rendering machine users for path variables. You can change these in Terragen 2 to be compatible.

[nixx]

Thanks for your reply njeneb,

however I 'm not sure what you mean exactly. If you mean system paths in environment or user variables (like the standard %TEMP%), then I don't think that's the problem here. The problem is the "%04d" in the output filename, where Royal Render's batch file interprets the "%0" part as the batch file's full path. If, for example, TG2 used something else as a sequence numbering placeholder, say like "####" (like many other apps) then there would be no problem.

Of course I may be completely missing what you meant in the first place Could you please give some more detail ?

Thanks again,
nick

[Henry Blewer]

My DOS days are very far behind me I'm afraid. The filename variables maybe slightly changed, either by the program you are using, or the OS. There may be a set of variables that would save the files correctly instead of using the default file variables that T2 uses.

Blender does some funky things with files. I have to change it's save variables to send and name the files correctly.