vray batch tools

[QuakeMarine1]

I just found this on cgtalk

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=6&t=512126

give that guy some feedback

[Morbid Angel]

looks very big and confusing. Plus, why would you need it? submitting the scenes to backburner would do the job just as well as this tool, without all the knowhow.

[percydaman]

ya really not that helpful. Even if you dont have a renderfarm, you can setup backburner to work on just one machine, and you renders wont have to load all the max ui and stuff. A for effort though. Id invite him to post this info here in the forum, but I suspect he can't. haha j/k

[RErender]

not selling too good i think they just lowered the price from $150 to $60

[studioDIM]

Bloody hell.
I'll prepare a VRayFrabulator that does absolutely nothing, and put it up on sale for 1k USDS.
See if that works.

Lele

[tigerX]

Sounds great Lele, put me down for one of those!

[QuakeMarine1]

as I told
give that guy some feedback

[Morbid Angel]

as I told
give that guy some feedback

why? it doesnt even look like he is using licensed copy. Most likely its not. He wrote a useless tool.

[meanadam]

What do you mean? I want it. But I would prefer a LeLe version.

You can batch up a whole nights worth of your LC + IRRs and your final DR - and go home! I just spent a week waiting for calculations and starting DR renders. Can't run a DR via backburner, unless I missed something?

[Morbid Angel]

in new vray versions you can run DR in backburner.

[^Lele^]

As someone posted on cgtalk, there's the max batchrender with max's own render presets (saving out irmap/lc paths and settings, and whatnot).
It works a charm -which is very rare being said of an Adesk piece of software-, I can't see why not using it.

[meanadam]

I'll check that out LeLe, but still - that is only 1 max model. I suppose we could set up 1 batch per 1 computer per vray licenses....

Ok. Next issue with this: it is still running Max on the controller computer (Ram usage), and probably doesn't clear the Ram between batch processes (Ram build up issues = very bad), and finally this always a problem: but without a network queue - 1 crash wipes out 12 hrs of render time. I started running everything to strips for a while, for this reason - but then figured out how much extra the strips were doing for AA filter or whatever - and that was costing us hours of render time.

Can you tell me #1 - how to run the damn batch command line file (i never figured out what to do with the .exe ! #2 - make a script that clears the ram between each batch process - or if there is a way - force max to close and reopen between?

Or, I guess I can just wait for the next version of Vray and use BB.....

[gilpo]

If you perform a gc() and a freescenebitmaps() between renders, it will free most of the ram used without closing and reopening max.

[meanadam]

Yes - are you saying that if I put that in the post-render script box, it will do it during the batch render?

[^Lele^]

indeed.
There was also a script i did ages ago that would perform a gc() and a freescenebitmaps() in between the frames of an animation.
Should still be around somewhere...

Edit:
Here:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...14241&start=26