MANTRA BATCH RENDERING

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SAVE OUT AN IFD

      Turn on the Disk File checkbox on the Main tab of the render node and click the file chooser icon to set a file path.

      Click the Render button to save the file.

RENDER IFD FROM COMMAND LINE

	mantra -f filename.ifd output.tga

OPTIONS

-H hostlist
Specify a comma separated list of hosts to perform rendering. For example -H chili,cayenne.

-n val
Number of processes to render using network rendering (deprecated in favor of -j).

-N maj.min(.ren)
When network rendering, ensure that remote hosts will run at least this version of mantra.

-j numthreads
Specify the number of threads (-j 0 uses maximum threads).

-f file
Read the IFD from the file given instead of from stdin.

-F
Indicates that the first argument after all options specifies the name of the IFD file to render (instead of the output image).

-o file
Send verbose output to the file given.

-p file
Append verbose output to the file given.

-P pyfilter
Specifies a python filter program (see Python Filtering).

-V string
If the string contains

IFD FROM A HIP FILE

 Use the hbatch command line program to load the .hip file and trigger the render node.

   1.

      Set up a render node to output IFD, as above.
   2.

      Load the .hip file into hbatch.

      hbatch myjob.hip

   3.

      On the hbatch command line, use the render command to trigger the render node.

      hbatch-> render my_render_node
      hbatch-> quit

RENDER FROM A HIP (SIMILAR TO MAYA)

Use the provided hrender script in $HFS/bin. This script is written in csh. To use this script on Windows, you will need to use a UNIX-like environment such as Cygwin.