Corona command line rendering - frame padding

[michael]

Hello guys. I work at company where command line rendering is very important. I've failed to find any info on the subject of frame padding. As i render using the standalone it saves only last frame from the entire range and without padding. That makes animation impossible to render and i couldn't find any info on that topic. Please help.

tested with:
Corona 1.5.2

[maru]

Sorry, but I am not familiar with "frame padding". After some googling I found out that it's basically frame naming/numbering - am I correct? So you would like to be able to have better control over file naming in Corona Standalone?

[michael]

Yes, sorry for not being as much precise as I could be. I am basically after adding frame number to the output render's name. For example: name_0001.png, name_0002.png and so on. By padding I've meant the number of chars reserved for frame number at the end. So frames named in the following manner: name_0001.png, name_0002.png have padding of 4, frames named: name_00001.png, name_00002.png have padding of 5 and so on.

[maru]

Thanks for the explanations!
Moving this to feature requests. The dev team will take a look.

[michael]

great, thank you, much apreciated :)

[Ondra]

Hi,
I need more info - you specify the frame name on command line when you run the standalone. So what you are requesting is that when you specify "output.jpg" and that file already exists, the output is written into output0001.jpg?

[Ondra]

unclear request, got no further info, moving to resolved. Will move back when more info is available

[michael]

" So what you are requesting is that when you specify "output.jpg" and that file already exists, the output is written into output0001.jpg? "
yes, sorry for late response - thought you have enough info.

the issue is that when rendering 5th frame for example, it will not add padding (name.frameNumber = framename.0005) - that prevents rendering sequences using scenes exported to corona standalone scenes. i only submitted it becasue it's the standard option with vray,arnold and all others. using standalones helps to resolve certain issues and also allows one to render his animation faster, so that would be a prett yneat feature.

PS
haven't got time to fully test corona, but from my renderfarming experience (i'm the troubleshooter) i must say it behaves great! (compared to vray for example, arnold also has more issues :) )

[quirin]

Hi Michael,

did you achieve it in the end? I'm actually having the same problem right now and it looks like there is still now solutions to render several frames easily with standalone.

Thanks!
Quirin