Simulate and render mode

[jonnybefree]

Due to the fact that vray and phoenix coming from the same geniuses,
wouldn't it be great if there would be smt like a "simulate and render" mode?
when i'am leaving the office in the evening and let him simulate over night, or even better over the weekend it would be a huge time saver when he automaticly begins to rendering the sequence when simulation is done.

any thoughts?

Best regards
Jonas

[georgi.zhekov]

Hello,

This is already implemented. Under the Simulation tab there is a tick option for Use script - turn it on. Press the Edit button and a menu with some premade scripts will show. Uncomment the desired one (remove the two dashes in front of MaxQuidRender and it will render after the sim is done)

[Ivaylo Katev]

you have it

[jonnybefree]

Ha. damn nice.. but i think these are features wich are really worth to be more featured. like a new button in simulation tab instead of hiding it under scripts?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Sounds right, will add it to the list

Cheers!

[jonnybefree]

you've made my day!

[Ihno]

I'm not a scripting guy unfortunatly and as far as I see this scripts will start a local rendering.
I believe it wouldn't be that hard to get it to submit a backburner job with MScript, thought.
But if you are thinking about an ui for that, please consider that.
And to push it a bit further: Would it be possible to let it automatically submit a backburner job if n Frames are simulated?
Lets say, you've a farm wating for your jobs and the simulation computer submits small 20 frames jobs whenever its's done with the corresponding frames.
That way the farm wouldn't have to wait the half night for the sim computer to finish the whole job befor it submits a job to BB.
I really always thought this would be nice when I used phoenix in production. And not having this made me stay awake some nights.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

I think this would be a good starting point in this direction: https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...+a+GUI+License

I hope we can extend this in time.