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Vizard cluster with director calls
Hello,
Perhaps this question has already been answered, but I couldn't find it. If it has been answered before, could someone please point me in the right direction to find the answer? As background, I'm running a powerwall with 6 screens and thus 6 rendering machines. I want to be able to switch scenes in Vizard while a script is running. I'm creating thumbnails of different scenes and via a touchscreen like interface I want to allow a user to switch between these scenes. Since some of these scenes are quite big, it can take the cluster some 10-20 seconds to load them. In this time period I would like to display a 'loading...' message so the user knows that something is happening. I created a fancy, animated loading message with spheres that change opacity. I tried to get Vizard to load the new scene in a background thread using the director, on my desktop this works fine. When switching to the cluster, the animation doesn't run. Is it possible to run a background director call on a cluster? Thanks in advance for any tips! Regards, Victor PS Code for loading a scene: Code:
scene = None def loadSomeScene(): global scene scene = viz.addSphere() def loadScene2(loadFunc): if not scene == None: scene.remove() LoadingAnimation.showLoadingSpheres() yield viztask.waitDirector(loadFunc) LoadingAnimation.removeLoadingSpheres() def loadScene(loadFunc): viztask.schedule(loadScene2(loadFunc)) vizact.onkeychar('1', loadScene, loadSomeScene) |
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No, currently you cannot run background director calls within a cluster. The clients will just execute the calls in their main thread. We are working on adding a built-in option to load models asynchronously to a future version of Vizard, which would also work with cluster clients.
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Hello farshizzo,
Thanks for your reply. It is unfortunate that director calls won't work in a cluster. I'm looking forward to a new version in which to load models asynchronously. For now, I'll make do with the UI freezing for a bit while models are loading :-) Regards, Victor |
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