art3mis Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 (edited) Hi Was wondering of there is a way to render in the background on the same machine, possibly thru a 3rd party plugin or? Edited September 19, 2016 by eco_bach Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlo_c Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 When you say render in the background do you mean using Mantra? You can render through the command line if that's what you want, set half your machine cores to Mantra process and as long as you have enough RAM I would imagine you'd still be able to use your computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunker Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 You can use hrender from Python. Have a look at the attached HIP file. bunker_localrender_001.hip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted September 21, 2016 Author Share Posted September 21, 2016 Wow, didn't think background rendering was possible . thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted September 21, 2016 Share Posted September 21, 2016 49 minutes ago, eco_bach said: Wow, didn't think background rendering was possible. Python is very powerful and flexible. SESI has done an excellent job of integrating it in Houdini. There's not a lot of stuff that isn't possible these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art3mis Posted September 25, 2016 Author Share Posted September 25, 2016 Thanks, yes am going thru a tutorial on cmivfx that creates realtime weather widgets using Python in Houdini! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamer3d Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 On 9/21/2016 at 7:33 AM, bunker said: You can use hrender from Python. Have a look at the attached HIP file. bunker_localrender_001.hip Sorry for bumping old thread, but I can't seem to get it working. Upon pressing "Local Render" button the shell window briefly pops up and immediately disappears and no rendering is performed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunker Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 This is an example using gnome-terminal on Linux, so you'll need to adapt the command to the type of terminal you're using... If you're on Windows maybe someone else can help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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