Deadline 3: DFusion 4 Jobs fail

Deadline
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Hi,

[*]Problem
trying out Deadline 3, submitting a DFusion 4 flow, I got an error message:

“…An error occurred in StartJob(): GetFloatPluginInfoEntry: Could not parse value for key Version into a float because Input string was not in a correct format. (Deadline.Plugins.RenderPluginException)…”

Obviously StartJob() expects the Fusion version string to be a float number. The thing is that the call

 df:GetAttrs().DFS_Version

in"SubmitToDeadline.dfscript" in my case gets the DFusion version as a string: “4.04e”.[/*]

[*]Solution(?)
I replaced the line

fh:write( "Version=" .. df:GetAttrs().DFS_Version .. "\n" )

with

fh:write( "Version=" .. string.gsub(df:GetAttrs().DFS_Version, "%a", "") .. "\n" )

,cutting away any alphanumeric characters from the version string. Now my DFusion jobs are rendering without errors.

I’m only not sure if I produce errors in other contexts with this modification. Would be good if somebody from the FF team had a look at it.
[/*]

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Thanks for the info and the solution! This should affect anything else, and we’re going to include this modification in the next release.

Cheers,

  • Ryan