Render Can't Keep Up With Script Running

[MADjestic]

Hi, folks

I've been scripting a bit in the eve - I've been following this tutorial with some modifications - http://cade.scope.edu/courseware/notes/houdini/script.html

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and the obstacle I struck was that it seems that the script was running so fast that it didn't allow renderers and izmatte to finish their task - as a result I was getting a composited image with lots of artifacts that are characterisitc to situations when you interrupt the rendering (you see a piece of a normally rendered image and the rest of the poicture are just smudged lines, going up, or something like that). So what I did was - I added

for wait_var = 1 to 10000 
echo $wait_var
end

pieces of code into the script everywhere where you can see

render my_ROP

and

izmatte

- as a result I was getting a nomral composit, though the render times got astonishingly long, obviously.

So my question is whether there is a way to make HScript wait untill every operation is complete, before contnuing to the next line of the script?

Thanks.

[sibarrick]

Make sure on your renderers that you turn off "render in background"