batch rendering

idragosani · Post by **idragosani** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:05 am

I'm on Linux.

Batch render dialog says to drag files into window to add to file list.

Drag files from where?

Am I missing something obvious?

Is there supposed to be an open file dialog?

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Post by **Lost Marble** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:29 am

Drag files from folders on your hard drive. Unfortunately, drag and drop on Linux is not very consistent. This should work if you're dragging files from Nautilus (Gnome), but not necessarily if you're using KDE. On Linux, if you're not using any file manager at all, then it will certainly be difficult to drag files at all.

idragosani · Post by **idragosani** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:36 am

Lost Marble wrote:Drag files from folders on your hard drive. Unfortunately, drag and drop on Linux is not very consistent. This should work if you're dragging files from Nautilus (Gnome), but not necessarily if you're using KDE. On Linux, if you're not using any file manager at all, then it will certainly be difficult to drag files at all.

I tried using the Gnome file manager (I don't normally use Gnome or KDE, but can switch to it if needed), but nothing happened. Oh, well...

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:21 am

For just another data point, using gnome's nautilus 2.8.1, I was able to queue files. This is the version that comes with Fedora Core 3.

idragosani · Post by **idragosani** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:48 pm

jorgy wrote:For just another data point, using gnome's nautilus 2.8.1, I was able to queue files. This is the version that comes with Fedora Core 3.

Yep, I was using Nautilus, not sure of the version, whatever the latest is in Debian Sid (probably the same).

I'll just have to live without batch rendering for now.

The rendering usually goes pretty fast, since I always render to TGA.

Hmmm... is there a way to do batch rendering through the scripting interface?

Post by **Lost Marble** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:00 pm

idragosani wrote:Hmmm... is there a way to do batch rendering through the scripting interface?

No.

idragosani · Post by **idragosani** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 7:31 pm

Lost Marble wrote:
idragosani wrote:Hmmm... is there a way to do batch rendering through the scripting interface?
No.

Darn.

I am looking forward to the planned non-GUI batch rendering mode.