Request for animation background task...

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vipvip
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actually working on animations for a job with octane, i ask you again a very appreciated wish:

the option to make octane run on BACKGROUND TASK( to avoid the intempestive window opening when working on multitasked projects while octane is rendering the animation ).

I'm sure this option would be easy to inegrate in preferences ( or in the exporters menu ).

Hope you will listen to my request...

I'm waiting for the promise-full 2.5 version... :)
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steveps3
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You need to get a second GPU to drive the screen. Once you do this, Octane merrily runs in the background and doesn't affect the screen refresh at all.
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vipvip
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thats i have ( 2 x gtx470) but even when assigning only a single GPU to render, the octane-window still appears for each frame and break the current workflow on the others programs...
i wish for a "silent" ( with two gtx470, it's not exactly the word... :) ) background process (i work on 3 1920x1200 screens and even when octane is configured on the 3rd screen -as primary or secondary display - -> not the one i'm working on with other prgs )...
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face
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Thats correct and there is no solution for this in the moment...

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kivig
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face wrote:Thats correct and there is no solution for this in the moment...

face
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salvation
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i think it should be possible to make this with a small console-app that call octane in minimize(background) mode?
plugin -> (smal console-app named as octane.exe) -> octane_org.exe ??? can this work?


EDIT:
in the manual ist this text as comand-line
"-q, --quiet Start Application without splash and minimized window "

so i think this sould be in the host-plugin
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face
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salvation wrote:i think it should be possible to make this with a small console-app that call octane in minimize(background) mode?
plugin -> (smal console-app named as octane.exe) -> octane_org.exe ??? can this work?


EDIT:
in the manual ist this text as comand-line
"-q, --quiet Start Application without splash and minimized window "

so i think this sould be in the host-plugin
No chance, it doesn´t work...
I have written the plugin for SI in C++ and therefore i have access to the windows api.
Have tested it with some of this parameters:
SW_HIDE, SW_SHOWNORMAL, SW_NORMAL, SW_SHOWMINIMIZED, SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED, SW_MAXIMIZE, SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE, SW_SHOW, SW_MINIMIZE, SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE, SW_SHOWNA, SW_RESTORE, SW_SHOWDEFAULT, SW_FORCEMINIMIZE, SW_MAX

With notepad it works, it´s also an Octane issue. I has discussed with abtrax for some time about it.
It´s also in work i think...

face
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salvation
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ok that is strange... :roll:
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[gk]
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You can write a render manager that starts octane up on 1 or more rendder nodes if animation is needed and continue to work on workstation.
You are stuck if you have no more than one computer
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