hi - I have cached particle simulations to our server using 2024.4
I have then taken those same files and made them relative paths so they can be found by our render farm.
for example, In the "Path to Alembic File field" I have changed:
Q:\ProjectName\cinema4d_file_location\sc3d_v10_scene_cache_active_v3.abc
to
sc3d_v10_scene_cache_active_v3.abc
when I submit to the farm (that runs the command line c4d on Linux) c4d cannot find the file even thought it is in the relative path to the project.
the farm spits back this error:
Errno #2: No such file or directory [alembicarchivehook.cpp(98)]
doing this for the cloth tag cache works - but it is not working for the particle cache.
why? is there a work around if you have no solution? can I spit particles out another way as an alembic that can be read by a relative path? thank you.
PS - I have no idea how to put this in the correct forum category