Forum: Poser Python Scripting


Subject: an idea for a network rendering script.

Khai opened this issue on Apr 01, 2009 ยท 4 posts


Khai posted Wed, 01 April 2009 at 10:14 AM

ok, this may take some explaining.. please bear with me.

with PoserPro's network rendering, it works on full frames only. you can't send 1 image (frame) to mulitple nodes to render sections of the image to speed up one image.

so I was thinking,

what if you set up a script that would say split a render down into frames?

I'm thinking the script on frame one would use say a black plane to mask off the left half of the image. then on frame 2, the mask would flip and mask off the right side. - using the masks would also keep the image size constant over the renders.

then these could be sent to 2 nodes to render and could be recombined easily into the one image (the idea could be taken further with the masks to split down to say 4 or more sections).

could someone A: check my logic on this (it feels right, but that don't mean a thing) and B: program it if it does work?