rop, sim and rop in one mouse click

[vbk!!!]

Hi,

I have a rop node in sop level to cache geometry.

I use the cached geometry to source a simulation.

I use a file node to cache the sim

I render the image with a mantra node.

For the moment I press first on my rop geometry node ( sop level) and, once the cached is done, I press play to cache the sim.

Finally, I press the render button of the mantra node.

I need to find a way to make I more simple : I create the scene but I give it to render in another site via internet and I couldn't upload all the cached file

How could automate the process cescribe in one or two mouse click ?

What would you do in ths situation ?

Thanks for your help

Vincent

[gaurav]

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/rendering/renderdependencies

there are couple of nodes to manage dependencies.

[lukeiamyourfather]

I'd create a function using Python that does all of the tasks. It could be stored on a node or elsewhere like the session module. For ROP nodes you can render them like this.

hou.node('/obj/geo1/rop_geometry1').render()

Edited March 6, 2012 by lukeiamyourfather

[lukeiamyourfather]

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini11.0/rendering/renderdependencies

there are couple of nodes to manage dependencies.

Beat me to it, that's a more user friendly way than Python.

[vbk!!!]

thanks for your replies

I will sutdy that deeper.