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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.

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

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

Bubbaloo wrote:... 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!

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

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

-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...

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

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