Couple of wishes (or are they in the nightlies?)

[Joelaff]

Would really like to be able to choose a PRTLoader as the particle source in a Phoenix Source. Having to go through PFlow is very slow and cumbersome.

Would like to have a feature similar to the "Wait if caches are missing" option used in resimulation, but for rendering. I would like to be able to start the render farm and have it wait for missing simulation files. (Yes, you can do this with Deadline dependencies, but Deadline is very expensive if you have a lot of nodes, albeit an excellent product).

Thanks.

[Ivaylo Katev]

if you wait to finish the transfer of the files, the total render time will be linger than now. do you have any special reason to need this change, except the render time?

[Joelaff]

The thought was to be able to have other machines render the frames as the simulating machine does the simulation. Now I can use the script to have the simulating machine render each frame as it is simulated (which is cool), but this slows down the simulation, of course.

With a farm of machines rendering they would be able to have the entire rendering finished within one frame render times of the simulation ending.

Alternately, I could do some fancier scripting in the simulation end frame script to submit each frame one at a time to our render farm, but this is a little bit of a pain to script. I may end up doing this, though.

I just thought if the farm machines could wait for the cache files this would be easy. Of course it would only work of this was the only job on the farm...

[Ivaylo Katev]

i see now, you need a tool that starts the rendering after new frame is simulated and does not wait the render end to continue the simulation.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey,

Regarding the PRT Loader being supported in the PHXSource - we have that in the TODO list and will add a vote for it

Cheers!