Standalone per frame

[bdancer]

> We've never gotten the V-Ray Deadline submitters to work.

Well, you could report whats missing / not working.
Btw, latest Deadline version also supports VFH.

> But we hit another snag. If we render .vrscene files as a sequence out with $F in the file path, we can read them into a vrayScene node. They show in the viewport but do not render.

And what are the errors / warnings anything in log? Exported vrscene contents?
I can't fix the issue if I don't know that issue exists...
Any changes for a scene setup?

[corestudio]

OK, thanks. My ultimate goal actually isn't really to render the .vrscene files with standalone but rather to read them into another scene and render *that* scene. We've never gotten the V-Ray Deadline submitters to work. But we hit another snag. If we render .vrscene files as a sequence out with $F in the file path, we can read them into a vrayScene node. They show in the viewport but do not render. However if we create .vrscene files as one huge file for the sequence, they don't show in the viewport but DO render. Sigh. I don't really care if they show in the viewport, but making the 2000+ frame .vrscene I think is going to be a non-starter

[bdancer]

> If so, do we add $F to the file name?

Yes.

> And then how to tell standalone to render them as a sequence vs submitting them one by one?

What do you mean by that?
Submitting where? Submitting how?
V-Ray Deadline ROP has frame number controls.
If you have custom submitter - you'll have to implement it yourself.
V-Ray Standalone is not a render manager.

[corestudio]

Not sure if this is the place, but with heavy scenes is the proper protocol with .vrscene files to do /frame? If so, do we add $F to the file name? And then how to tell standalone to render them as a sequence vs submitting them one by one? thanks