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Creating directories and using sed for render-time text-edits.

Some cool rendering tricks.

Date Created:Friday December 29th, 2006 03:41 AM
Date Modified:Wednesday July 30th, 2008 10:17 PM

CREATE HIERARCHY OF FOLDERS THAT REPRESENT NETWORK
this is good for Output Picture, so you can make subnets based on object names, and inside containing the passes.

The final result would name the file the name of the pass, in a folder of the name of the pass, in a folder of the name of the object.

$RENDER/`opname("../.")`/`opname(".")`/`opname(".")`$F4.pic

Then use this to create folders on disk in the same hierchy as render outputs.

set SOP = `oppwf()`
setenv RPATH = `chs("$SOP/rpath")`
set NAME = `chs("name")`
ucd $RPATH
set NEWF = ${NAME}_`arg(system(date),1)+arg(system(date),2)`_`strreplace(arg(system(date),3),":","")`
umkdir $NEWF
setenv RPATH = ${RPATH}$NEWF

foreach z (`run("opfind -t mantra -p $SOP")`)
set z = `strreplace(strreplace($z,"$SOP/ROP",""),"/"," ")`
ucd $RPATH
    for i = 0 to `eval(argc("$z")-1)`
        umkdir `arg("$z",$i)`
        ucd `arg("$z",$i)`
    end
end

Here is a cool way to automate creating directories without overwriting...

* settings in the mantra node:
Output Picture:

$HIP/$RPATH/pic$F4.pic

setenv RPATH = `arg(system(date),1)+arg(system(date),2)`_`strreplace(arg(system(date),3),":","")`;
umkdir $RPATH;

SED RENDER

cat test.ifd |sed -e 's@/home/houdini/3d/houdini/00__content@placer@g' | mantra

Scripting Render Tricks by Dan Lynch
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