FAQ - morevnaproject/remake GitHub Wiki

Dependency detection takes too much time for me. Is there a way to speed up?

For the big projects dependency detection can take significant time. When your changes not influence dependencies between files of the project, you may create ‘Makefile’ by using ‘-k’ option:

remake -k project.blend

After that render just by typing ‘make’. That way you skip dependency detection and rebuilding your project will take less time.

Can I use files outside of “remake project” in my animation?

Generally – yes. But “Remake” will not be able to do proper dependency tracking for those files. Though, dependency tracking will be fine if those files belong to another “remake project”.

I want some file always render with the width two times bigger than the default project width (to use as background for panorama). How can I do that?

Let’s suppose your file is called “background.sif”. To make it render with double width you should create file called “background.sif.conf” in the same directory with the following content:

WIDTH=`expr $WIDTH \* 2`

See also “Using .conf files” section in the Tutorial.

I don’t like the commandline. How about GUI?

There is no GUI for “Remake” yet, but we provide nautilus-actions scripts in our packages for Gnome users. If you have nautilus-actions installed then you can call “Remake” commands by right-clicking on file.

Remake called via Nautilus-Actions in Gnome 3

Also, since the version 0.6 the same integration is available for KDE’s Dolphin.

Remake called via Actions menu in Dolphin