This directory contains scripts used by the Alfred Output Driver.

Alfred is a render task manager supplied by Pixar with the standard
RenderMan distribution.

To configure Mantra for use with Alfred, please do the following:

    1)  Modify the lib/alfred/alfred.ini file to contain the following
	lines.

	    set alfLimitLocal(mantra) 1
	    set alfLimitGlobal(mantra) #licenses

	Where #licenses is the number of Mantra rendering licenses
	that you have.

    2)  Modify the lib/alfred/alfred.shedule file to allow machines to
	render using the "mantra" token.


Files in this directory:
    alf_mantra.cmd	- This script is used when Alfred is rendering
			  using a Mantra output driver.

    alf_rman.cmd	- Script called to generate an Alfred task
			  when the Alfred output driver is using a
			  RenderMan output driver.

    alf_other.cmd	- Script called to generate an Alfred task
			  when the Alfred output driver is using
			  something else.

These commands must generate a valid Alfred task list when called.
Typically, they will simply generate a simple task for a single frame.
However, it is possible to modify these scripts so that they will
generate multiple frames with a complicated task hierarchy.  For
example, it is possible to generate images from multiple output
drivers which have dependency lists (i.e. render shadows, render
reflection maps, render the final image).  There are currently no
examples of this.

Note:  The alfred output driver will set the environment variable
	$ALF_TMP to be a path to a temporary directory (specified by
	the output driver).
