As a Softimage user, I’m not given any kind of render manager software like the straight forward but useful application that is backburner. I’ve worked at many studios and used many render farms (including backburner) but some of the main ones are Royal Render, Deadline . Anyway these ones are can be quite complex, and if you start beta testing a renderer like VRay in Softimage, you can come up against issues. I’ve now found that while I wait for a new version of Deadline, Softimage 2013 isn’t supported either….. So I’ve gone back to using this wee batch rendering system I made last year.
It involves only a few elements:
- a plugin/submitter for Softimage
- a batch file that runs…..
- the main Lemon Render Python script
- a simple web interface (run by a simple web server)
From this though, I can print logs of my renders to see how long they have been taking, and queue up jobs. These are all just stored (from the submitter) in simple text files which I can later alter/delete etc.
At the moment there is no priority, the only thing a user can do is pause jobs in the queue.
I’m sure I could easily write plugins for Maya/Max/Nuke too but have never gotten around to it.
If there is any interest in it then I may do so!
