Correct way to setup Geometry ROP cache?

[huey_yeng]

I've started using Afanasy as a render manager with great success and currently I'm facing an issue when outputting geo cache.

(ignore the cache name as I was testing it)



Assuming each frame takes around 8 secs to sim, I noticed Afanasy will take 16 secs for Frame 2, 24 secs for Frame 3, 32 secs for Frame 4 and so on.

I observed it will resim from the the first frame until the latest unfinished frame before restarting the whole process again for the next frame.

When using the built in Save to Disk/Save to Disk in Background in the Geometry ROP, it doesn't exhibit this issue.

Here's the settings that I used:

[timurhai]

Hi.
If there is a simulation, yes, a machine that asked to save 11 frame, needs to simulate 10 previous frames.
So, on simulations, you should ask to render 11 frames per task (just one task will be created that will perform the entire simulation).

[huey_yeng]

I figure this out right after I posted the thread by bumping up the frames per task to see if it does anything.

Thank you for the wonderful software and the prompt reply!