[Bubbaloo]

I thought I would give all of the forum readers a little hint about this new command line instruction. It's useful for saving a lot of write time on animations. It allows you to write only the image file to disk and skip the mxi writing step.

[JamesColeman]

Awesome, thanks for pointing this out Bubbaloo, this'll save a lot of time (and hard-drive space).
On a related note, have you used the draft engine to render an animation yet? I can't get it to save the image files as it's going through the frames, I think it has something to do with the draft engine not saving MXI's.
Thanks
James

[Bubbaloo]

No I haven't done that yet, but I think I remember reading that it's not available yet.

[3dtrialpractice]

... useful for saving a lot of write time on animations. It allows you to write only the image file to disk and skip the mxi writing step.

+1 TY!

[Bubbaloo]

Just be careful, because you won't be able to resume the frames later.

[juan]

On a related note, have you used the draft engine to render an animation yet? I can't get it to save the image files as it's going through the frames, I think it has something to do with the draft engine not saving MXI's.

We are looking into this. If this is a bug (it seems so, at least in some scenarios) we will fix it in the next minor update.

Thanks,

Juan

[rusteberg]

-nomxi causes issues when added to command line field for network animation submit.

error code: mxi does not exist. yada yada. cannot send mxi

queue stops dead in its tracks...

[Bubbaloo]

I don't think it's compatible with network rendering yet.

[rusteberg]

well now.... that's a horse of a different color