Batch rendering

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cheeseburger
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Batch rendering

Post by cheeseburger » 27 Mar 2014, 19:08

Hi, what is the easiest way of batch rendering with Softimage ? I've never tried it with Soft only with other software.

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Re: Batch rendering

Post by NNois » 27 Mar 2014, 19:57

This is simple if you are rendering one scene:

- Open a softimage command prompt
- type in "xsibatch -render dragdropyourscenefile -skip on" the "-skip on" is for multi machine rendering so xsi skip frame beeing rendered
- done

if you have a sequence of scenes, just create a file.bat where you pill up the same thing
xsibatch -render path -skip on
xsibatch -render path2 -skip on

it's important than you use xsibatch and not xsi, because xsibatch is a command line exe and can be executed in sequence

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Re: Batch rendering

Post by cheeseburger » 27 Mar 2014, 20:01

Great, I'll give that a try Thanks