How to control output file names? Tweet

[AlexeyAdamitsky]

I'm having a hard time setting up the correct names for my output files.

I'm on Houdini 19.5.805 and latest RC10 Octane build.

1. $OCTANE_PASS variable doesn't seem to work at all when used in Solaris. Can you confirm if it's working?

2. Pass render names are just appended as a prefix. It's not great, but I can live with it for the current project.

3. It looks like a bug. If I remove .$F4 at the end then the output files aren't saved at all. If I leave the dot (".") and only remove $F4. The files render but I'm left with the extra dot and the end of the file. I just don't need the sequence numbers for static shots.

Any suggestions how to make it work as expected?

[BK]

I'm having a hard time setting up the correct names for my output files.

I'm on Houdini 19.5.805 and latest RC10 Octane build.

1. $OCTANE_PASS variable doesn't seem to work at all when used in Solaris. Can you confirm if it's working?

2. Pass render names are just appended as a prefix. It's not great, but I can live with it for the current project.

3. It looks like a bug. If I remove .$F4 at the end then the output files aren't saved at all. If I leave the dot (".") and only remove $F4. The files render but I'm left with the extra dot and the end of the file. I just don't need the sequence numbers for static shots.

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Any suggestions how to make it work as expected?

Hi Alexey,

thank you so much for your patience.
It looks like we have the AOV name working automatically without the tagging.
If you have *Save Layered EXR* unchecked, the AOV names are saved as *AovName_HipName_Frames*.
The Layer tag seems to be a bug. We will get this fixed ASAP.

Please let us know if you prefer to implement file prefix tagging like our main plugin!



cheers