How To Make a Movie Using HVR


1) Install hvr_server on all machines in your cluster
   + Follow installation steps, above, on each machine.
2) Set-up the hvr_queue directories on machine you will run queue from.
   + Create the directory C:\\users\\HVR_queue
     This directory is where the movie meta-data will be stored.
     This meta-data is small, typically less than 1MB.
   + Create a directory where the movie raster files will be written.
     This raster data can be large depending on the movies you make.
     Ideally this directory should be on a large high performance partition
     For example, let the directory be W:\\BigDrive\\movies
   + Create and edit the plane text file C:\\users\\HVR_queue\\RenderDir
     This file contains the path to the movie raster directory given above
     In the example above, RenderDir should contain the string
           C:\\users\\HVR_queue\\RenderDir
3) Interactively define and submit the movie to the movie making queue
   + Run hvr_gui.exe
   + Specify views, near and far clipping planes, color and opacity LUTs
   + Save this key frame information into the key frame list
   + Choose a movie path which interpolates between key frames
   + Specify the hvr_queue host:
     - the default is localhost (one machine configuration), otherwise
     - choose menu item: Display->Hosts, enter name of host you will run queue on.
   + press the Generate Movie button.
4) Run the movie making queue
   + Edit the Cluster Server List file (*.cls) to include all of the hosts in your cluster.
   + On the queue machine, run hvr_queue_control.exe
   + Choose the Cluster Server List file
   + Choose the hosts you wish to run on
   + If you are running hvr_gui.exe on one of the hosts you wish to use as a server for the queue, exit hvr_qui now.
   + set the queue running.
   + when rendering finishes, stop the queue.