Frame Padding Behaviour with Softimage

[jean-louis]

Hi there,

We are rendering a sequence with a frame range of 1 to 180000 (step 18 luckily!) and we are coming across a small issue regarding padding.

In Softimage the Scene Options has a padding dropdown menu which only gives a maximum padding of ####, so no problem, we just put the correct number of hashes in the Pass Options filename and that works fine for local renders.

However when the frames are sent to the farm they come out of RR padded as #### until they reach frame 9999 and only then does the padding increase.

It seems that RR is picking up the setting from the Scene Options rather than the Pass Options.

Any suggestions as to how to circumvent this problem? Any particular Config file we can edit?

Thanks in advance,

Jean-Louis
Digital Golem

[schoenberger]

Hi

You have to modify the render script
RR\resource_deliver\render_apps\scripts\renderchannels_2011.vbs

There is a line
fname= fname & "[Frame "
and following, this is the location where the image name is set.

I will check if I can make a fix for the issue.
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

[jean-louis]

Thanks Holger,

I've taken a look but I'm a bit hesitant to screw around with the script without making sure I'm editing the right parameters.
Is there any chance you can tell me exactly what to change, or shall I hang on until you've made a fix for this?

Cheers,

Jean-Louis
Digital Golem

[schoenberger]

Hi

I can only give you the location for the fix as written in the last post.
It is the location where the [frame] variable is added to the file name.

I will have time to check the issue in a few days.
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization