peliosis Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 How to display rendering progress if houdini was not started from shell? I check verbose, rendering progress but ofcourse it doesn't open any terminal, console or anything. I tried outputting to file, but is it possible to watch this file being constantly autoupdated? I know this is not serious but kind of disturbing for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malexander Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 If you're rendering a frame range from a ROP from within a graphical Houdini app, you should get a progress monitor popping up. If you're using mantra, you'll get a frame progress bar as well as an overall progress bar. This monitor only pops up for ranges, though, not for single renders (as people tend to get irritated by the monitor constantly popping up). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 In the Command field in your Mantra ROP, put: mantra -V 3a This will print out a percentage complete to stdout. I render on linux and this goes to my shell. If you're on Windows, you may want to put this: mantra -V 3a -o consolewait -or mantra -V 3a -o consolenowait ..which will cause Mantra to output into a popup console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peliosis Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 The monitor is ok but I need verbosity. I know about -V option but how toautomatically pop up shell with progress in linux. I start houdini from desktop icon. Is it possible to display autoupdated logfile? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 The monitor is ok but I need verbosity.I know about -V option but how toautomatically pop up shell with progress in linux. I start houdini from desktop icon. Is it possible to display autoupdated logfile? 23922[/snapback] Launch Houdini from a shell instead - or launch from the icon, write to a log file (mantra -o /tmp/mylog.txt) and then in a shell "tail /tmp/mylog.txt". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Marengo Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 and then in a shell "tail /tmp/mylog.txt". 23925[/snapback] To see it update continuously, add the '-f' option: tail -f /tmp/mylog.txt ... and 'ctrl-c' to stop it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peliosis Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Thats exactly what I searched for, thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 To see it update continuously, add the '-f' option:tail -f /tmp/mylog.txt ... and 'ctrl-c' to stop it.. 23927[/snapback] Oh yes - I forgot the -f thing. I thought it did it by default for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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