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What’s New In Deadline 6.1.54178 (Beta 14)
This release mainly consists of bug fixes and performance improvements. A ton of updates have been made to the region rendering feature in SMTD, and support for Terragen 3 has been added as well.
General Improvements
- Improved job submission speed by decreasing the amount of database calls required to create the tasks, and by removing an initial dependency check (which housecleaning does anyways).
- Improved task collection query speed by about 33%.
- Fixed a null reference exception in housecleaning when requeuing orphaned tasks.
- The ‘?’ button is no longer shown in any dialogs on Windows, since it didn’t do anything.
Installer Improvements
- The autoupdateoverride option is no longer mandatory for unattended installations.
Monitor Improvements
- In the job quick filters, the current user is now shown at the top of the Users section.
- Fixed some errors where values were being cast to ascii strings instead of unicode strings.
- Removed a line of debugging output from dependency graph.
- Fixed a typo in the Monitor Options dialog.
- Fixed a dictionary key bug in the Job Dependency view.
Slave Improvements
- Added a field to the Slave Information tab that shows if the slave is connected to the database.
- Removed the Bad Jobs column from the Slave list in the Monitor and from the Slave UI. The reason is because the slave doesn’t track this any more because it’s stored with the job object.
- The slave UI now shows the normalization multiplier value(s) instead.
- Fixed a bug where choosing to restart the slave after its current task from the slave’s control menu didn’t actually restart the slave after it closed.
- When looking for a job, the slave no longer acquires limit stubs or task collections for jobs that don’t have any queued tasks available.
Pulse Improvements
- Added a field Pulse to show if its connected to the database.
Command Improvements
- Added code to suppress unhandled exceptions and error popups in deadlinecommand and deadlinecommandbg.
3ds Max Improvements
- Added a plugin config option to disable the _alt file renaming when the render can’t be saved to the original output location.
- Texture baking jobs now fail if the RTT main output path hasn’t been set to something.
- Added try()catch() to all 84 unprotected calls to UI_report in the SMTD UI just in case it is not up.
- Changed the SMTD UI Log to colorize all lines of a multiline message according to the prefix of the first non-empty line.
- Added a call to close the UI from the Functions script to ensure the UI changes are committed before the structs are reinitialized. This also fixes the problem with restarting SMTD clearing last region setup if Tile tab has focus.
- Added a new JobInfoFile key SubmittedFromVersion using the file version of 3dsmax.exe.
- A ton of updates have been made to the region rendering feature in SMTD.
Maxwell Improvements
- Fixed a bug in Maxwell that would cause an Invalid Path error if no MXI file is specified on submission.
- Removed the “_f” from the output MXI files, and formatted the MXI file output to match that of the output images.
- Fixed a Maxwell submission bug that could cause more than 1 results dialog being displayed.
Nuke Improvements
- Fixed a Python error that occurred when rendering with Nuke 8 on OSX.
Terragen Improvements
- Added support for Terragen 3.
xNormal Improvements
- Fixed some bugs in the xNormal plugin where it was still using some global functions.