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Here is my test scene.

Hi there! I would like to know how I can run substeps geo baking in parallel on the farm. It works on full frames, by setting the geometry ROP to 'Render Current Frame' and on my Afanasy to 'Render Frame Range'. This creates a task per frame that generates my geo file on disk in parallel. If I set t...

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Mmmh, interesting. While trying to put together a simple example file, it seems that it actually works! I made probably another mistake when putting together my first test. I'm sorry for the noise.

Greets,
Carlo

Hi there! I would like to setup some custom ROP nodes using a ROP subnetwork with a shell ROP node inside. On that shell ROP node, I can use the different script parms to run Python code. This approach works locally. When I hit the 'Render' button of my subnetwork, my code gets executed. Now, I woul...

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Sorry for my late answer. I got stuck with other things and could now finally take a look at this again. And yes, when using an Alembic ROP in the ROP context, it seems to work.

Greets,
Carlo

Hi Timur!

Yes, it seems to rewrite the entire file on each frame. When I launch the job locally, my file size grows constantly but when running on the farm with CGRU, the file size starts from 0 for each frame. So, is the problem on the CGRU side or in my Houdini graph setup?

Greets,
Carlo

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I'm not really sure with what you mean by 'watching the file'. How do you want me to distinguish and update and a recreation of the file? Sorry, I'm not an IT specialist.

Greets,
Carlo

So, I continued my little research and I don't know if that is related to CGRU or Houdini, but when I run the abc writing job on the farm, the time per frame increases with the number of frames to render: 20 frames: 5m22 --> 16s per frame 30 frames: 11m34 --> 23s per frame 40 frames: 20m52 --> 31s p...

And what I forgot is that I do not have the same effect when running the ROP locally. Every frame takes more or less the same time.

<t>Hi Timur!<br/> <br/> Thanks for your feedback. Yes, indeed, that is exactly what I have done. But the problem is that the execution time gets longer with more frame which does not make any sense. I tried to run a single frame on the Afanasy node with frame range strict on the ROP and the number o...