How do you get a progress report when rendering with HBatch for the command line, I'm on a mac if that matters, any help would be greatly appreciated! This is the command I'm currently using.
mread filename.hip
cd /out
render mantra1 -f 250 275 -V -n
all that this does is say: Rendering mantra1.
Which is painful as I never complete a render at once, and don't want to go browsing my computer to see where it's at.

Does anyone know??

Instead of “-V”, try using “-Va1”. Use higher numbers to get more info.

Ive found setting the mantra rop to verbose 1 and Alfred progress checked on works well with hbatch.

Keeping in theme with hbatch. How do you stop hbatch and exit back to your directory structure ? .

Rob

For some reason the frame range I specify is overwritten by the one inside the Hip file, how do I make the -f one the one it renders?
Also it didn't work.
This exact string.
render rop_geometry -f 87 300 -Va1 -s

Delight0092
For some reason the frame range I specify is overwritten by the one inside the Hip file, how do I make the -f one the one it renders?
Also it didn't work.
This exact string.
render rop_geometry -f 87 300 -Va1 -s

You need to do it as:
render -f 87 300 -Va1 -s rop_geometry

Then both verbosity and framerange will work.

Out of curiosity, why is that?
*Edit*
Also how would I schedule 2 renders, so I can specify a Geo ROP, than give it a mantra to render render?
*Edit*
It works!!!! Thanks, I owe you my gratitude even if it's a little thing.

Delight0092
Out of curiosity, why is that?

That have I also wondered guess there is some funky argument parsing going on.

EDIT: To answer your other question I would use hython instead of hbatch and write a script.

Any place you can point me? Or if your willing give me a hint to the big things, I'm currently doing a Python challenge run by the Sydney University, so it shouldn't be too hard to figure out if your busy.

circusmonkey
How do you stop hbatch and exit back to your directory structure ?

quit

Delight0092
Also how would I schedule 2 renders, so I can specify a Geo ROP, than give it a mantra to render render?

Connect the Geometry ROP to the Mantra ROP. Rendering the Mantra ROP will now cause the Geometry ROP to run first, followed by the Mantra ROP.

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.1/rendering/renderdependencies [sidefx.com]

Thanks, but it's impossible, rop geometry is in a different context, and i don't think I'd be able to do this through HBatch, I'll go the python route, but don't know where to start!

Delight0092
Thanks, but it's impossible, rop geometry is in a different context, and i don't think I'd be able to do this through HBatch, I'll go the python route, but don't know where to start!

http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini12.1/nodes/out/fetch [sidefx.com]

Wow, shows how little I know! So this will work with HBatch just fine(Follow frame range specified and Verbosity?

Yes, because hbatch is simply non-graphical houdini.

How do you pause a render? ‘pause’ doesn't do it.