softimage take frame range from pass problem

[xabian]

hi,

first i have to say that afanasy is really a great rendermanager!! thx a lot for this handy tool!

i have one problem:  i want to send a pass from softimage, with a specific frameset (keyframes of a long animation), then i check "take frame Range from pass" in the afanasy property panel, but only frame one will be sent to afanasy… what i'am doing wrong?

cheers

[Timur Hairulin]

Hi. By default "Force Pass Frame Range" check-box is set.
ps
I do not really remember why there are 2 options, and the second cancels the first. I wrote that submitter, but i am not a softimage user, one man asked me to do it and tells me what he wants from that submission dialog.
btw
that is a simple python script, located in cgru/afanasy/plugins/xsi folder, you can fix it as you want
this way you can to help an opensource project )

[xabian]

hi, thy for your fast info!!

mmhhhh  the "force pass frame range" is by default off at my side…

thats in the script:

   defaultRange_frompass = 0
   defaultRange_forcepass = 0

and i also tried diefferent variations with these to buttons, because i also didn't understand the functionallity of "force pass frame range".. for me it's logic, that take frame range from pass is on or off, thats it.. i also tried to figure out whats happening in the python script, but i'm an artist and a noob in coding ;)  the problem is i want to render noch range, but different frame sets like: 20-45, 75, 120-150, 80,81… .. in xsi there is a dropdown menue to switch per pass from  "scene render option" to "frame range" or "frame set"… is this maybe not integrated in the submitter script? would be very nice to have a solution here, because quite often its very helpful to send only framesets to the farm as keyframes to check them before i render the whole scene…

[Timur Hairulin]

Unfortunately frame sets are not supported by this submission script. But it can be added. I can consult with python API. You can try yourself of find somebody more familiar with python.

Frame ranges array can be send like "VariRender" (it is in a same script, so you can see how to do it) each job block for each frame range ("VariRender" sends each parameter value for each block).

[xabian]

is it not simply possible to catch the data from the pass options of xsi? i just want to use the settings from the pass, there is no need to ontegrate frame sets direct to the submitter…. it just should tell the xsibatch to render the pass options, even its set to frame set instead of frame range…

[Timur Hairulin]

I did not got you. Mat be because i am not familiar with xsi. I send you my email, to communicate faster.