Environment variables changing slash direction

[Francois Kruger]

Hi,

Not sure if this is a bug or not. But we are submitting a value in the environment variables, and the slashes seem to get turned around as soon as Royal Render loads them.

For example, we submit this "CAM" key with a value of "/obj/cam1" in a job.xml like this:

<rrEnvLine>

CAM=/obj/cam1

</rrEnvLine>

And then the log in rrControl is this:

S 9| >set "CAM=\obj\cam1"

This is under the section:

S 0| ++++++++++++ Environment Variables Done +++++++++++++++++++ 

This is for a Houdini Arnold job, if that matters.

Thanks for the help in advance,

Francois Kruger     

[RR, Schoenberger]

Hi

 

This is a feature.

But there is a workaround, please see last column with the info about [BSlashConvert]

http://www.royalrender.de/help/RenderEnvironment.html

 

 

 

regards,
Holger Schönberger

 

 

[RR, Schoenberger]

PS:
Why don’t you use <Camera> for the camera of the job?

RR switches the camera at render time to it.

 

 

regards,
Holger Schönberger

 

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[Francois Kruger]

Ah ok! Well that worked for the slashes. Weird thing though, it is now creating two entries for this CAM key. Any idea why that is happening? It doesn't really break anything, it just seems wrong.

My key is getting supplied like this:

(other keys)...%%[BSlashConvert] CAM=/obj/cam1%%...(other keys)

And here is the double log from rrControl:

Reason why I can't just use the <Camera> is because we are using the $CAM in many other places. It's not just the export rop. But regardless, [BSlashConvert] seems to do what I need.

Thanks!

Francois Kruger

[RR, Schoenberger]

The BSlashConvert does work with variables only on Windows.

So the first line sets %CAM% tot he value.

The second line converts backslashes and overwrites the variable.