hrender command on windows machine ...just a puzzle

[avak]

Please ignore me if it has been discussed previously, I just couldn't find my answer clearly, thanks in advance to help me.

 

Ok I can run hrender command in a linux machine very easily without doing a lot of fancy things,  normally I make a text file with some few texts in it:

 

cd /opt/houdini...

source houdini_setup_bash

hrender -v -r -d ...etc

 

and then open a terminal to say to run this text file as a script

 

ok now I want to do the same on a windows machine (win7 64 in my case)....really it is a puzzle for me how to do the same,

 

please guide me

Edited March 26, 2014 by avak

[edward]

Something along these line: Start the Command Line Tools from the Start menu, type in csh, now you do: hrender -v -r -d ...etc.

[avak]

Something along these line: Start the Command Line Tools from the Start menu, type in csh, now you do: hrender -v -r -d ...etc.

Thanks for the tip,

can you please explain what did you mean of "type in csh"

 

Ok I opened the Command Line Tool as you mentioned and typed:

csh

then

I typed:

hrender

the consol answers:

cat: command not found.

rm: command not found.

#

 

what did I wrong here?

 

Thanks,

Edited March 27, 2014 by avak

[edward]

Ah right, hrender uses additional tools normally found on Linux. You might need Cygwin, or better yet use hython. eg. forums.odforce.net/topic/16383-verbose-in-hython-render-command/

[avak]

Ah right, hrender uses additional tools normally found on Linux. You might need Cygwin, or better yet use hython. eg. forums.odforce.net/topic/16383-verbose-in-hython-render-command/

 ok let me check the link and will comeback here again

[saman]

Hi,

I don't know if you managed it or not,

any way let me answer you in its simplest way which it is :

 

suppose you have a scene on drive D named "shot.hip" and its path is "D:/shot.hip"

and we have a mantra node named "mantra1" and its path is "/out/mantra1" in your scene.

ok

press win button on keyboard type : command line tool and press enter

 

it opens a command shell 

type: hscript d:/shot.hip and press enter . then type:

render -v /out/mantra1

 

that's it 

 

I admit you're right that using hrender command in windows  is not as easy as in linux  . any way by using hscript command you have more option to tweak and can do more .

suppose you have a dop output node in your scene "/out/dop" and by using hscript with the same fashion as explained above you can run simulation without opening houdini and save a lot of ram for simulation this way.