3DS Max - Region render 'Blowup' not working?

Deadline
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I have not been able to get Blowup rendering working with my scripts for Deadline 5.1. I tried the SMTD 5.1 submission script and it does not seem to work for that either. I am using Max Design 2011 x64 and Deadline 5.1.

Is this feature supported with Deadline?

Thanks,

-Rob

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Hey Rob,

I just tested this here, and something does seem to be going wrong. I’ve logged this as a bug, and we will try to look at it for 5.2.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks!

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Hey Rob,

It may actually be working. What I’ve noticed is that blowup mode must respect the aspect ratio, so if you choose a region that doesn’t match, the extra pixels off the right or bottom will get cropped. Is this what you’re seeing?

I’ve confirmed that max’s blowup feature doesn’t even allow you to choose a region that differs in aspect ratio. So while Deadline does (which is probably a bug), it still restricts it to the ratio at render time.

If you can provide more details on how it’s not working for you, we can go from there.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Sorry for being so vague, the issue I had was that ‘View’ would always be rendered regardless of ‘Blowup’ being turned on. I think I may have tracked down the problem though.

If ‘EditRenderRegion.IsEditing’ == true when getting sent to render, it seems ‘Blowup’ does not work. If I turn it off it seems to work fine. Thanks for looking into this though!