batches for all

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In fact anyone with some scripting knowledge

and there ya go. that's what i'm saying, i dont have scripting knowledge. i'd like a nice simple interface with bells and whistles that would handle all that. let me give you an example of how i script in psp. i turn on script writing and then do the things in the actual program i want the script to do. the script records all my actions and puts them in a file which i can then save and reload. i would think batch scripting could be similar with some added buttons and sliders to push to refine what and when you want things to happen. sjeiti's web based program does this in a slightly different way in that it sets parameters and ranges, which is fine. i would think all of that could be incorporated into a gui within FF which doesnt require 'coding' by the end user.

i love and use FF because it's so visual. when you guys put out the basic command line batch thing, i think i looked at it once, along with the instructions and gave it up immediately. i dont have a lot of call for batch processing, anyways, but right now, my number of things to be studied and learned is a VERY long list and i just dont have time to learn another one right now. but, if it's very intuitive, requires no coding/scripting knowledge, then i'm all for it.

I'd like a "Save all render maps" function and an OpenFX plugin version of FF...

And there is also a more complicated version:
Note the options for 'render to multi-layered PSD' vs 'Separate Files'

It would also be nice if there were the ability to just give it a name, and a designated suffix for each file. (ie _a for alpha, _ss for spec, _sx for spec exponent etc...)

It would also be nice if there were places to indicate it's numbering sequence. (A good example of this is FileRenamer: http://www.filerenamer.net/file-renam...shots.html )

Good point, I've added it to the renderers title attribute (mouse hoover).

I haven't actually tried batching V2 yet, should be interesting with the new components. -edit- Ohno that's not true... I forgot... did this of course.


Important notice: I've been cleaning my root and moved ffbatch to here: http://ffbatch.sjeiti.com/

(besides, if you dont, i'll put stevie on your tail to hound you )

hehehe... well, if the threat of stevie on your tail doesnt do it, then i doubt anything else would

and sure, send me the source. if nothing else that will give you an offsite backup

hehehe. if steve could make these posts sticky, he'd most likely make a few select others so

(and thanks, ron )

Sjeiti, I've thought I make a go to write a batch renderer for Mac OS X, so the Wiki might be good so I can see what features you use and how to define what params to modify, ranges etc etc.

Anyone interested in a Mac OS X version at all?

Hey cool, you're actually building a standalone app. Maybe Kraellin will buy a mac now
Is what you're building by any chance portable to pc? It would be nice to have something similar for both platforms.
I don't know that much about mac but I don't suppose I could just add a '.bat' equivalent for mac to my ffBatch can I? That applescript or automator or whatever is not ascii is it?

Anyway I just added additional control for slider and color animation behavior.
Normally animation will occur linearly but I've made it so that it can also go smoothly or circularly.

In psuedo code you might find useful (that I haven't thouroughly checked yet):

sliderStart = .3;
sliderEnd = .5;

part = x; // a linear floating point from 0 to 1 representing frames

switch (animationtype) {
case 'smooth': part = .5-.5*cos(part*PI); break;
case 'circular': part = .5-.5*cos(part*2*PI); break;
}

value = sliderStart + part*(sliderEnd-sliderStart);

bombers and offsets...

It's alive!

All I need now is some polish, cleanup and I'm ready to upload

The implied path for the source image trips me up every time. For anyone else that struggles with this sort of thing, here is a reference image.

Thanks again Sjeiti.

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Vurt wrote: water filter that could be animated smoothly?

hi Vurt,
you can get some nice looping animations by using the ‘angle’ slider in any of the library's water filter’s perlin noise nodes.

yeah i dont get any good results with water animations in FF2, i've tried a few different techniques.

My best results so far is creating water caustics with this free utility:

http://www.dualheights.se/caustics/

then applying a filter (anything that adds reflections and will follow the shape of the texture will work).

here's the result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZ5H9g5pfg

its just 19 frames of animation so its not perfect.

bumping this one up again!

Is there an offline, or source available for this beauty, Sjeiti?

Also, since you have a site, is it ok if you host my FFCat tool, instead of Filefirge links?

Thanks for both answers

Here's the source: http://xp-dev.com/svn/ffbatch/
the online version is in the trunk but I also see I began working on a newer version (back in 2010), I've put that one in a branch... (oh hold on: I think the one in the branch is the one online, oh well...)

- just reading up on what FFCat is -
(haven't been here for a while)

Looks cool and handy. Although I wouldn't mind hosting such a thing I'm not sure if it's the smart thing to do. I can't give you FTP access so you'd always need me if you have a new version.
If you wouldn't mind making it open-source you could use Github or Google code (with the added advantage of version control and issue tracking).
Or if you're just looking for webspace you could use sites.google.com

Be very careful with the open source and the licence so you do not have problems later, if possible I would suggest to keep it free but not give it with the source code unless someone you trust and know wants it for expanding or modifying it.

Thanks for adding it to the wiki

Yeah, I was wondering that myself.
Is it possible with the command line renderer to have a folder of say, 1000 images, and have the same filter with the same preset run on all of the images?

I suppose it's really easy to make a .bat file that will call the renderer for each image, but is there a built in option?

Ummm... So if I have 1000 images, I need to enter the names of all 1000 inputs and 1000 outputs in the xml, right?

Command line doesn't automatically mean it can do everything, and there's hardly anything fully-automatic about command line

The FF team made the command line to work with an XML file, probably because of the enormous amount of options. And it would be a bit confusing to put some options in command line and some in the XML. So I guess that why it works the way it works.

I could rewrite my script to take in multiple images... sadly I have no time whatsoever in the near future (and it will take quite a bit of rewriting). But if anyone wants to take on the challenge, the source is here (I can give write access on request).