question: show rendered time

[boxer]

hi, all

i want to show the rendered time every frame on the mplayer window.

how can i do that ?

thanks your suggest.

[stevenong]

Hi boxer,

There isn't a way to print each frame's render time to mplay.

Cheers!

steven

[Mario Marengo]

Yup. What Steven said.

.... but just in case you're no aware of it, you can display render times to the console by adding the "verbose" option (-V) to Mantra. So, if you just want render times, you could change the render command in your ROP (which defaults to just "mantra"), to something like "mantra -V 1".

Cheers!

[Jason]

To add to this, on Windows the stdout output gets lost, so to pop up a houdini console window to catch this you have to add the following to your command field:

mantra -V 1 -o consolewait  

-or

mantra -V 1 -o consolenowait

(Yep, it's not in the dialogue box.)

One of them keeps the same console around and the other opens new consoles for every render session.

Hope this helps,

J

[boxer]

Yes , the method i have try before.

thanks all.

[Henster]

Just starting discovering this site. Signed up a bit ago but never really looked through it. Enjoying reading all the old posts!

So, apologies if this is a bit late...

I was thinking you could stick the render time on in COPs?

and using a script something like this:

set var = `execute("time render mantra1")`
opparm /img/img1/font1 text ( $var )

The Cop network will have to be set up beforehand and the ability to do multiple frames put in somewhere. hmm..

H

[Henster]

Actually... that would increase the render time wouldn't it?

Oops

[boxer]

haha .... that's great!