Anyone know if there are any batch rendering plug ins out there for Poser, I know that there is the feature in the fabled Poser Pro, allegedly due Winter.  But as this does not appear to be available yet I was wondering if anyone knows of anything that would do the job.

I know there was a programe for Poser 6 called Pose-Net (I 'think' it was by Sixus 1) that did this but it seems to have disapeared.

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GlowWorm (from DAZ) does batch rendering.

Hi.. What is batch rendering??

Batch-rendering is a way to render frames of an animation in more than one workstation, within a network. For example at movie studios where they do a high volume of CGI work, they have a remderfarm. Basically a large set of workstations that just batch-render files, sharing the workload between them. Since some of these files could be millions of frames you can see how sharing these work over a number of machines would save a very large amount of render time.
Some companies do batch rendering online, you can send them the file and they will render it for you, saving you hours or maybe days of rendering time.
With Poser this is one of the numerous "holy grails" as the rendering can be sooooooo time consuming and some of us may have more than one machine on a network, so the posibility of batvh-rendering over a network would be very, very welcome.

Thanks for the Glow Worm tip, its not too expensive so I will have a look at it, to be honest it looks like a pretty decent bit of software anyway.

NukedBug is right on the definition f batch renderings, but there is also another aspect of batch rendering, and that is multipule renderings on a single machine, lets say you have 20 scenes in an animation set in a que, you set the render preferences and then a bit of python goes to work to render scene one, when its done it saves it, opens scene two, renders it and so on.  This is very useful as your machine can be working away while you sleep.

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