Redshift // Skip frame // Render faster

Deadline
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Hi,

In the redshift plugin for houdini (and i guess softimage 3ds and maya) there is an option to “skip rendered frame”

I come from Royal render and in RR you can use Skip rendered frame to render really faster because the batch render don’t need to reload the scene at every X frames.
Now Redshift support this (create a zerobyte file) so thechnically Deadline should support this by sending the job on each node to “all frames”

How can we get that working ???

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Hi,
I think you are asking for 2 things here:

  1. BatchMode for Houdini (KSO - Keep Scene Open) between frames? (Yes, we already have a KSO/‘BatchMode’ for XSI, 3dsMax and Maya)
  2. Add a “Skip Existing Rendered Frames” checkbox option, but to which app? Houdini?, 3dsMax?, Maya?, Redshift Standalone?

Please could you clarify. Thanks!

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Hello,
So I was asking to KSO for houdini :wink:
And by the way a “Skip Existing Rendered Frames” could be interesting but not really mandatory.

Cheers :wink:

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Thanks. I’ll log the request.

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Hi,
Do you have any progress on KSO for redshift for houdini ?

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Hi there,
Currently, no progress to speak of, although I do believe we are working on some other elements of Houdini job submission at the moment. So, more news on that front shortly. I think we would probably want to bed those job submission changes down first, before we look what if anything could be done on the app/execution side of keeping Houdini open between tasks. Incidentally, I think this hasn’t had much demand to date, as most users bake to an external file and render via Mantra or another standalone renderer outside of Houdini.

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Hi,
Thanks for the answer, while I’m on it, on deadline 9 there’s an annoying redshift alert when we submit a redshift job on houdini about concurent task even if we don’t have concurent tasks :wink:

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This is already logged for dev team to fix. Thanks!

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I wasn’t aware that KSO is not active with Houdini as well, but then again I haven’t rendered much with Houdini so far.
In this case having multiple frames per task would be more beneficial right? ie 1-100 frame range, 5, 10 or similar frames per task?

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Right, but the more faster the renderers are, the more baking is obsolete as it takes to much time compared without that.