Tractor LOPs are a set of Houdini HDAs for streamlining the process of sending render jobs to a Tractor renderfarm.
- Source Code: scottdmilner/tractor-lops
- Technologies: Tractor Python API, Houdini HDA
Tractor LOPs is designed to be a drop-in solution for sending complex renderfarm jobs to Tractor without leaving the Solaris LOP context. It was designed with the needs of Dungeon Pipeline in mind, but intended to be flexible enough that other students can use it to deploy their personal projects to the renderfarm when there is headroom.
Artists can create as many Tractor Configure nodes as needed and feed them all into the Tractor Submit node. This allows them to quickly wedge various lighting rigs or render setting configurations within the LOP context without needing to use TOPs. All streams are submitted as a single job to Tractor.
Denoising with the RenderMan denoiser can be configured with the Tractor Denoise node. This includes support for denoising arbitrary AOVs, sorting them based off diffuse_ and specular_ prefixes, if provided.
