3dsmax Submission with 3dsmaxSubmission.py, Silent Deadline Client, Execute Script with deadlinecommand, hourly credit counter per cpu in Deadline?

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Hi Charles,

Documentation of your application is very bad. That’s why I reverse engineered to understand.

Screenshot1 <-- bin/deadlineslave.exe
Screenshot2 <-- DeadlineRepository10/bin/Windows/64bit/bin/UI/DeadlineUI/Controls/Scripting/DeadlineScriptDialog.pyc

I e-mailed 3 times, and no one received an answer.

#Copied from mail.

The documentation of our competitors is very good. You can do something like that. Support team gets less tired :slight_smile:

I have questions, many questions :slight_smile:

1- What is the advantage of using the AWS EC2(RemoteConnection)? We will do the farm system. What advantages do you have?

2- We want to serve our farm service with cloud service. For this we want to write a submission in the attachment(https://ibb.co/fZMOdV). In 3Dmax, you must call and read the current file and submit the information to the cloud service. How can we do that?

For example Maxscript and py. I don’t want to use Maxscript, i want to use py. (FILESERVER\Render724\Cloud\RenderService\DeadlineRepository10\scripts\Submission\3dsmaxSubmission.py --> https://ghostbin.com/paste/ma8yz) SMTD very compex and i dont know maxscript. That’s why I need 3dsmaxSubmission.py

3- "deadlinecommand.exe -executescript FILESERVER/Render724/Cloud/RenderService/DeadlineRepository10/scripts/Submission/3dsmaxSubmission.py
Switches on and off in 1 second. Can this be caused?

4- Is there an hourly credit counter per cpu in Deadline?

5- Is it possible to install the Deadline client in silent mode?

Thanks Deadline Support Team and Charles :blush:

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Thanks for posting here! Charles is working on a response now, which is a fun coincidence. You ask questions that need quite a bit of background research, so feel free to throw them up individually here (one topic per thread) and we can all knock them out as a team.

While he’s writing that response up, can you help us fix our documentation? What don’t you like about it and how can we improve it? Constructive criticism is always welcome to make things better here.

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=) You guys are great. I found many of them myself. The most important answer is the submitter. Could you answer him? For example, I would like to use the SubmitMaxToDeadline_SanityCheck.ms file in 3dsmaxSubmission.py. How can I do that? In summary, how do I do sanity check with python?

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Well, the sanity check in 3DS Max is written in MaxScript, so just running the script going to be awfully tricky. Also, because parsing the Max file is hard (Autodesk knows the format better than anyone) we let Max itself handle that and we talk to its API for running the sanity checks.

Are you creating a custom submitter to run outside of Max, or is it possible that you are able to work within the program itself?

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It doesnt matter. Our goal is to make () such a submission. https://image.ibb.co/dWuyCq/11-Script.jpg

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Then I’d highly recommend running it inside. Even if you don’t re-use anything from MaxScript land, you’ll have far better control and visibility into the scene that way.

Now, I’m not sure exactly how the sanity check script works but you can check the scripting guide for the SMTD components for some info on what you can do.

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