JH12 Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 It's quite common that Ill set off a render at night only to find out in the morning that it has crashed at some point a short way through. Generally, if I simply restart houdini and render from where it got up to, it will continue without problem. Not sure why this happens, but it does mean over night renders are often a gamble. What I'm wondering is, would it be possible to have some kind of script which detects a crash, reboots houdini with the working project and takes off from the last rendered frame? Would such an idea even be possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtrvtr Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 That's basically what render schedulers are for. Tractor, Deadline, Hqueue etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiryha Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 I have a Render Farm script which takes a list of hip files as an input and renders them in the desired order. If the frame is crashed, it re-runs the render. Some sort of super basic Deadline. I guess it`s not that hard to change it for use in standalone mode (outside of Eve pipeline) if you have some basic coding skills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drughi Posted July 15, 2019 Share Posted July 15, 2019 There is also http://cgru.info/afanasy/afanasy wich is free and open source. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH12 Posted July 15, 2019 Author Share Posted July 15, 2019 6 hours ago, vtrvtr said: That's basically what render schedulers are for. Tractor, Deadline, Hqueue etc. Thanks. Do you know if the free version of Deadline has this functionality? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtrvtr Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 16 hours ago, Fireandsmoke said: Thanks. Do you know if the free version of Deadline has this functionality? Yes. All of them, I think. Beware that the free version on Deadline does not work with PDG because it uses a commandline submission instead of a Houdini submission. But normal Houdini submissions works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH12 Posted July 20, 2019 Author Share Posted July 20, 2019 Thanks for everybodys input. Ive ended up going with the free version of Royal Render, and it has been relatively easy and effective to setup on a single machine, and I have very minimal networking skills. For whatever reason, I was finding that the rrSerivce was not resuming my renders on a system restart, so I placed the win__rrClient.bat into the Windows startup directory to force it to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 If you're rendering with Mantra, you might want to look into "checkpointing" -- which can help a partially rendered frame pick up from where it left off. https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/props/mantra.html -- search for vm_writecheckpoint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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