[Bf-funboard] Command line baking

[Joe Eagar]

Tony Mullen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are a couple unanswered threads at BlenderArtists about this so
> I thought I'd ask here.  Are there any scripts or options available
> for command line baking of various bakeables?  I don't know what the
> issues would be with doing this, but it would be great to be able to
> bake physics, fluids, etc in the same way I do most of my rendering,
> on a cluster by command line.
>
> Actually, I'm not entirely sure whether it's possible or
> straightforward to run Python scripts on a .blend file without running
> them from within the file itself.  Are there any Blender Python
> scripts intended to be run from the command line?
>
> Tony
I think you do have to run the script from within the file, yes.  
There's a command-line argument for this, can't remember what its called.

Joe