Mistyk Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Hi, Is it possible to pipe the output of a Mantra renderer straight into the compositor (COPs 2), without first rendering to disk? In this way, the required frames would be rendered out by Mantra when the compositor asks for them. I have a faint memory of this being doable in COPs 1, but I might have dreamt that. Thank you in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 It was in the old COPs, but if memory serves, I think that feature hasn't made it over to the new COPs (yet?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistyk Posted March 11, 2003 Author Share Posted March 11, 2003 Thank you BoboFancy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG Posted March 11, 2003 Share Posted March 11, 2003 I was wondering about this too.... I forgot about it... now you reminded me of it. Anyways, thanks BoboFancy for telling us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted March 13, 2003 Share Posted March 13, 2003 No prob. One cool thing I saw someone do here though to get around this problem is add a ROP Network to the COP network where you wanted the Render COP. The ROP has a little button on it that you can click on to render. Now put down a File COP pointing to the output of the Render COP. So what you have to do is: everytime you want a new render, click on the ROP button, then go to your File COP and hit the refresh button. On the one hand it is annoying because you have to click so many buttons, on the other hand it gives you exact control over when a render happens (which can be slow). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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