Currently, my batch files look somewhat like this (repeated many times):
For a single render that's pretty fine. Scene opens, voxelizes, renders, saves, quits."C:\...\octane.exe" "C:\...\scene.ocs" --film-height 720--film-width 1280 -s 512 -t "RenderTarget" -o "C:\...\Output.png" -e -q
The problem is when I'm trying to do 20 views of the same scene and the scene has to voxelize every time. A large scene and the load time could be up to 2-3 minutes. Still, for finished quality views, not too much.
The real problem is when I'm trying to do 2000 frames of animation. For a basic quality direct-lighting animation at a moderate (720p) resolution and a decent graphics card the loading/voxelizing time ends up being greater than the render time, such that if the scene were only loaded once the time would be cut in half.
Instead, what if the batch file could look like this:
And thus the text file would look like this:"C:\...\octane.exe" "C:\...\scene.ocs" "C:\...\targets.txt" -e -q
No more re-voxelizing for every frame. This would greatly enhance the production capability of the Standalone from many programs, as it is not difficult to generate such .txt files from a multitude of 3d programs. And, of course, it could still accept the previous method.-t Animation1 --cam-pos-x 208.33 --cam-pos-y 24.09 --cam-pos-z 27.82 --cam-target-x 160.36 --cam-target-y 24.09 --cam-target-z 0.66 --film-height 720 --film-width 1280 -s 128 -o "C:\...\Output1.png"
-t Animation1 --cam-pos-x 208.33 --cam-pos-y 24.09 --cam-pos-z 27.82 --cam-target-x 160.36 --cam-target-y 24.09 --cam-target-z 0.66 --film-height 720 --film-width 1280 -s 128 -o "C:\...\Output2.png"
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-t Animation1 --cam-pos-x 208.33 --cam-pos-y 24.09 --cam-pos-z 27.82 --cam-target-x 160.36 --cam-target-y 24.09 --cam-target-z 0.66 --film-height 720 --film-width 1280 -s 128 -o "C:\...\Output999.png"
-t Animation1 --cam-pos-x 208.33 --cam-pos-y 24.09 --cam-pos-z 27.82 --cam-target-x 160.36 --cam-target-y 24.09 --cam-target-z 0.66 --film-height 720 --film-width 1280 -s 128 -o "C:\...\Output1000.png"
Could we see this change?
