HideDosWindow Variable

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Hi there,



Where do you set the variable for HideDosWindow for Fusion submissions? Though I don’t think it’s specific to only Fusion submissions. I cannot for the life of me find a place to set the variable. Currently it’s false and I would like it set to true, so that the ConsoleSlave DOS window that keeps popping up every time a new render job is given to the slave, sods off!



Thanks in advance,



Kyle

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Hi Kyle,



I don’t know what it is about the ConsoleSlave application, but for

whatever reason, setting HideDosWindow to True doesn’t stop the dos

window from being displayed. What you can do is use RenderSlave.exe

instead of ConsoleSlave.exe for rendering (which you can specify in the

Fusion5 plugin configuration in the Monitor). When using

RenderSlave.exe, no dos window pops up, and we’ve been using it here at

Frantic in production without any issues.



Cheers,

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Hey Ryan,



Thanks for the advice.



Unfortunately, we use ConsoleSlave.exe instead of RenderSlave.exe because it

gives more frame progress output which helps tracking the jobs better. We

changed over a few months back and found that the output from ConsoleSlave

was more indicative of progress through the frames. Before it would only

show when then entire batch was complete, never showing progress through

each frame in the batch.



Unless this has changed, or I’m wrong about that, we have to keep with

ConsoleSlave. Real bummer about the DOS window thing though.



Kyle



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Hey Kyle,



Unfortunately, the progress issue you mentioned hasn’t changed. If we do

happen to stumble across a solution to the ConsoleSlave dos window

issue, we’ll let you know.



Cheers,

  • Ryan