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Command Line

To use Syclops the virtual environment needs to be activated. This can be done by running the following command in the terminal:

conda activate syclops_venv
# For Windows
./syclops_venv/Scripts/activate

# For Linux
source syclops_venv/bin/activate

The most important alias is syclops which is the main command to use the pipeline. Following is a list of the command line arguments for syclops:

Argument Description Default Type
-j Path to the job description file. None String
-o Path to the output directory. Defaults to /output ./output String
-c Crawl assets and write a catalog file. False Boolean
--example-job Run the example job config. False Boolean
-da Path generated data to view. False String
-t Command to generate thumbnails for the asset browser. False Boolean
-b Start the asset browser. False Boolean
-log Display all log messages in the console. False Boolean
-tv Live display of the procedural textures in a job config. None String
-if Path to the install folder. None String
-d Debugging mode. See Debugging False String [scene, blender-code, pipeline-code]