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From: John Gross <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: ScreamerNet II operational options
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> >The LWSN program on the host machine is not mapped to the proper content
> >directory. Wherever it is started from. there must be a config file that
> >it can read pointing to the proper content.
>
>     Hmmmm, I assumed (!) that SN would "inherit" the content directory from
> LW-Layout.
>
>     A) Is there a separate config file for SN.....wait, that wouldn't make
>     any sense...

Yes. If LWSN is run from a directory other than where Layout is launched
from. Chances are you are having a problem because you have two machines
running ScreamerNet and they are not referencing the same content dir.
You'll have this problem if both machines are using the D:\ drive (for
instance) as their content dir. The scene is set up on one machine, but
the other machine can't see the objects on it's D: drive. One way around
this is to have a separate SN directory with it's own config file on each
machine that points to the proper drive (In one case it would be a shared
drive - Call it F:, and the other would be D:) Perhaps a better way is to
have one machine use a D: drive and the other use an F: drive as its
main. This way, you could mapa drive named F: to one machine (which is
the other's F: drive) this way if you save images to F: it will go to the
proper machine no matter which one is saving.. Also, you could have one
LW.cfg file for Screamernet which just points to F:.  I hope this makes
sense...

>     B)  Does the LW host have to be pointing at the content directory?  If
> so, how would it handle batch renders starting in differing directories?

Not necessarilly, but the scene file loaded to render has to reference
the same Content dir that the SN nodes are pointed at.

>     Another poster perhaps inadvertantly implied that it mattered whether
> SN or LW were first launched.  Is this so?

Not at all.

>     It seems it would matter if A) SN is deriving its content directory from
> the CFG file rather than pulling it out of Layout, because B) Layout, to my
> knowledge, only changes the CFG file when it exits.  Seems there could be an
> update error in that situation.
 Nope SN will always pull the content dir from the config file it reads
from where it was launched (or at least where its "working directory" is)

JG
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