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I have three .orbx projects set up and ready for rendering in Octane 4. Is there a simple commandline to load these one-by-one and render them (without a gui) then move onto the next when finished?

I have tried:

"C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 4.00 RC7\octane.exe" --no-gui -e -o "PATH TO FILE.orbx"
"C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 4.00 RC7\octane.exe" --no-gui -e -o "PATH TO 2nd FILE.orbx"

But all this does is open the program and not render anything.

I know commandline is not really supported anymore, but the lua scripting seems overly complicated to just run a couple of projects back to back.

BTW, I'm really impressed with Octane 4 and the denoiser. It helps tremendously on motion blur among other things. Also, I'm using the standalone because rendering with the C4D commandline requires I add a file name so I get both the Beauty and DeMain beauty (and I only want the second.) Plus it runs incredibly fast compared to C4D's render.

Any help would be appreciated. Othwerwise I'll just do them one at a time. Thanks.

So I figured out how to get it to run the program and open the batch render with all of the settings I had already input.

I just need to know how to modify the inbuilt Batch render lua script to automatically click the start button. (I have already made a copy of it I can modify.

You need a trigger that addresses the renderTarget. Can be done with a very small Lua. Then add to use that in command line. --script
./rrb

Thanks, rrbarb, that's the part I couldn't figure out last night. what that little lua script should say. I did have the --script switch in my commandline, but I could never figure out the proper render target name. It kept throwing up errors when it would execute.

I have to move onto my projects but I'll get back to this next week. Thanks, again.

BCres wrote:Thanks, rrbarb, that's the part I couldn't figure out last night. what that little lua script should say. I did have the --script switch in my commandline, but I could never figure out the proper render target name. It kept throwing up errors when it would execute.

I have to move onto my projects but I'll get back to this next week. Thanks, again.

I will PM you the details in the morning
./rrb

Thank you, rrbarb. That's much more than I expected.

Depending on what you need to do, you can include lua scripts into the commandline with --script D:\myScripts\ascript.lua an then if needed inject variables to that using -a

Or if you prefer, you can skip the script and just call the "render target" in the commandline with -t "Render target" Where the name of the Render target as it is seen in standalone
is quoted for use. I think this is more what you are after- at least at this point.

./rrb

I know this is an ooooold post, but I have recently discovered Loom which is very handy commandline render through their batch queue. I use Blender/Octane.

protovu wrote:I know this is an ooooold post, but I have recently discovered Loom which is very handy commandline render through their batch queue. I use Blender/Octane.

Hi,
have a look at here:
viewtopic.php?f=73&t=70855#p403251

ciao,
Beppe