Product Generation

Stage 4 transforms Processed Output Data files into deliverables: graphs, videos, or any other output a custom plugin produces. Generation is driven by the --prod plugin chain: one or more plugin names passed in order, each executed sequentially. The default chain is prod.graphs. For what each built-in plugin does, see New Product Generation Plugin (--prod). For the graph formatting and resource options that apply across plugins, see Core Command Line Reference.

Composing the Chain

Plugins are run in the order given. The only ordering constraint between the built-in plugins is that prod.render requires frames to exist first: either captured by the engine during stage 2 via --engine-vc, or generated by proc.imagize during stage 3.

Common compositions:

# Default: graphs only
sierra ... --prod prod.graphs

# Graphs and render imagized frames into video
sierra ... --prod prod.graphs prod.render

# Skip graphs entirely, render engine-captured frames only
sierra ... --prod prod.render