Batch render Sketchup scenes

[brainspoon]

I have to admit that I am not into Sketchup at all.

 

Just want to integrate it into the render manager RenderPal, so our customers can use it to render Sketchup animations.

 

So is there a way to render Sketchup scenes from the command line? Pretty tough to find anything on this toppic. Seems Google did not develop it with that in mind.

 

With regards

Andreas

[Chris MacDonald]

Yeah you can batch render, kind of.

 

You need to (in model info) turn off animation/scene transitions, set the scene delay to 0 seconds. Then export an animation with your required resolution, though you will be limited to either a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio.

[brainspoon]

Well my goal was to distribute the rendering over many machines on a render farm. For that I have to find a way to control the render process from the command line and render an image out for each frame.

[brainspoon]

The first steps are done.

At the moment the one client will output an 2D image of every scene in a Sketchup project.

 

I will extend it so far, that you can split the rendering of the scenes over multiple machines.

 

[brainspoon]

Would be awesome if some of you could provide me complex scenes for testing.

Even better would be if you have setups with different renderers, so I can check that too.

 

Thanks