hbatch : Overriding output using 'render' command

[Hugh]

Hi,

I'm trying to do some automation using hbatch, and I've come across a bit of an issue when trying to override the output files when calling the 'render' command.

When I call:

render -f 1 10 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.$F4.exr mantra1
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And look in the created .ifd files, each .ifd file is set to render to /path/to/myNewRenders.0001.exr, because, I'm assuming, the variable substitution happens when calling the 'render' command, when the frame context is 1.

Alternatively, I've tried:

[CODE]
render -f 1 10 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.\$F4.exr mantra1
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Which writes "/path/to/myNewRenders.$F4.exr" into the .ifd files, which would sound right to me, but when I pass this .ifd file into mantra to have it rendered, it, once again, evaluates the frame as 1, giving me a resulting file of /path/to/myNewRenders.0001.exr

Any idea how I can do this without calling something like:

[CODE]
render -f 1 1 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0001.exr mantra1
render -f 2 2 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0002.exr mantra1
render -f 3 3 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0003.exr mantra1
render -f 4 4 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0004.exr mantra1
render -f 5 5 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0005.exr mantra1
render -f 6 6 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0006.exr mantra1
render -f 7 7 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0007.exr mantra1
render -f 8 8 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0008.exr mantra1
render -f 9 9 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0009.exr mantra1
render -f 10 10 -a -o /path/to/myNewRenders.0010.exr mantra1
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Thanks

[edward]

Try doing an opparm command to change the output filename instead of the render -o option.

eg. opparm mantra1 vm_picture ( '/path/to/myNewRenders.$F4.exr' )