General .orbx export questions

[HSchoenberger]

Hi

I am testing the .orbx export and I have some questions.

There are in general 2 modes to export archives from Houdini and render them with a standalone renderer:
1) 1 archive file per frame
2) A single archive file that contains all frames.


Now my test results:
1) 1 archive file per frame
If I specify a frame number in the "Base file name" like ${HIPNAME}_$F4, then Octane still exports one file with all frames only.
I created a script with a loop to set the ROPs Frame Range Start/End for each frame.
And call the export command for each frame this way.
It works so far.
But it would still be nice if Octane supports this out of the box.
Only issue I found: It will not render motion blur this way.
The only workaround is to export the next frame into the file as well.

2) A single archive file
If I export a single file with all frames (as this is the way you intended the orbx export should be used).
But I cannot use that file to render all frames on our farm.
As the octane-cli.exe executable has no flag to specify which framw should be rendered.
Is the --help documentation missing some flags or how can I solve this?

[ricky_otoy]

Sorry for the delayed reply!

Ah ok I had to re-read your message, you saying that you are exporting per frame via your script right?
Yeah we don't support splitting the ORBX yet but will be looking into it.