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--- render [2015/06/01 22:33]
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+++ render [2021/06/03 19:48] (current)
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-==== CGRU ====
+==== Afanasy (Cg Toolkit) ====
 Afanasy is part of the [[http://cgru.info|CGRU Cg Toolkit]], and it includes software to drive the render farm, to manage the render queue, scripts to produce dailies, and more.
-Set up is fairly simple; install the server on a "master" machine, install the clients on subordinate machines, and finally install the Blender plugin so that jobs can be submitted.
+Set up is fairly simple; install the server on a "master" machine, and install and activate the Blender plugin (so that jobs can be submitted) on the client machines.
+One installed, jobs are submitted through the ''Render'' panel in Blender.
+{{ afanasy_properties.png }}
+Currently there are no SlackBuild packages for Afanasy, so you will have to build and install from the project website.
 ==== No Farm ====
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 With these options activated, you can point each Blender instance on each computer to the same network filesystem, (you can use **fish** or **samba** in KDE) and open the scene you need to render. Each computer will render frames until there are no frames left to render.
-    blender /network/drive/foo.blend -o /network/drive/out -t 0 -a
+You can run Blender in the background:
+<code>
+$ blender /path/to/networked/file.blend \
+--render-output //relative/path/to/output/dir \
+--background --render-anim -E CYCLES \
+--threads 8
+</code>
+Which means:
+  *blender: invokes blender.
+  */path/to/networked/file.blend: the path to the file that you want to render; store it on a networked file system so that other computers on your network can reach it.
+  *--render-output: this is the path to the directory where you want you output files stored. Note the special syntax of preceding the path with //two// slashes (''<nowiki>//</nowiki>''), which in blender-terms means "path relative to the .blend file being rendered".
+  *--background: run in the background rather than launching the GUI interface.
+  *--render-anim: render the animation in the .blend file (you could also render the scene).
+  *--E: which render engine to use (use ''-E help'' to see a list of available engines)
+  *--threads: how many threads to use while rendering (''0'' tells blender to decide on its own).
+Blender is very strict about syntax. The options themselves must come //after// the file paths, and you cannot combine flags (so the traditional combining of options ''-b -a'' into ''-ba'' cannot occur), nor can you omit spaces between flags and arguments (no ''-ECYCLES'' when you mean ''-E CYCLES'').
+For further details on options that you can use in the shell, run
+<code>
+blender --help
+</code>
-Be sure to have -f # or -a last since rendering will run and evaluate the other args later.
+<WRAP centeralign>
+<wrap fa>[[qtractor|R]]</wrap> <wrap fa>[[start|S]]</wrap> <wrap fa>[[rosegarden|Q]]</wrap>
+</WRAP>
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