AWS Thinkbox Discussion Forums

Deadline 8.0.0.50 (Beta 7)

Deprecated Deadline 8 Builds
#1

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL USERS:

Please read the Deadline 8.0 Licensing and Compatibility thread for important information regarding Deadline 8.0:
forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/vie … 09&t=13897

Full release notes for Deadline 8.0 can be found in the Deadline 8.0 documentation (see Downloads below).

Downloads

Installers and Documentation: thinkboxsoftware.box.com/s/okkc … 7ncjgc2d4v

#2

What’s New In Deadline 8.0.0.50 (Beta 7)

This release includes a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.

General Improvements

  • Updated the Python API folder to sync more predictably
  • Improved handling of paths to custom plugins/events/etc to be more transparent
  • Fixed a bug with History Entries when they were created outside the Monitor

Installer Improvements

  • Added a disk-space check to the Repository installer
  • Fixed a bug with silent installers that was requiring the ‘–slavedatadir’ flag to be specified

API Improvements

  • Updated GetJobDetails REST call to yield details for all Jobs if no IDs were specified
  • Added a Clone function to CloudUtils

DeadlineCommand Improvements

  • Added help messages for commands that were missing them
  • Fixed a concurrency issue that could lead to corrupted jobs when using the AppendFrameRange command

Monitor Improvements

  • Updated Farm Reports CSV Export have all file sizes as bytes (instead of varied sizes)
  • Updated Farm Reports CSV Export to contain the aggregated totals that are present in reports
  • Added ability to export and import custom Farm Reports
  • Fixed a memory leak in the Farm Reports dialog
  • Fixed a bug where multiple Farm Report dialogs could be opened at once
  • Updated History entries to use Repository time, instead of local machine time
  • Fixed custom plugins and events to show up in their respective configuration windows
  • Improved performance of the Job and Task lists
  • Updated ‘Sync Scripts and Plugins’ to force an update check for Event Plugins
  • Fixed issues with the graphs in the Reports panels
  • Fixed Balancer plugin settings to save properly
  • Fixed a bug where users could work around forcing the Deadline user to maych the system user
  • Removed obsolete ‘slave region’ field from the Slave Properties dialog
  • Fixed Model warnings that would occasionally appear in the Monitor console
  • Broke out ‘Render Time’ into ‘UBL’ and ‘non-UBL’ time in Active Slave Stats
  • Fixed a bug that coloured Tasks as Failed even though they were still Queued

Proxy Server Improvements

  • Fixed some bugs with retrieving cached repository paths when connecting through a Proxy
  • Fixed a bug that occurred when accessing CloudRegions through a Proxy Server

Slave Improvements

  • Fixed some bugs related to the Slave switching licensing types (Free Mode, Regular, UBL)
  • Updated the Slave Throttling feature to no longer require Pulse to be running
  • Fixed a bug where a local Slave’s log window would be blank when not connected to a network

Shotgun Improvements

  • Added support for Entity, Sequence, and Episode tags in version name templates

3dsMax Improvements

  • Made SMTD more robust when dealing with Render Elements of 3rd-party renderers
  • Fixed the “Maxscript Debugger” pop-up ignorer to work when running in French
  • Fixed the Submission folder cleanup to handle different regions’ formatting of DateTime objects
  • Updated 3dsMax plugin to render Vray Raw and split buffer locally, then copy results to output directory
  • Fixed Batch Render Dialog to support all SMTD features correctly
  • Added detection of VRayStereoscopic helper in ‘Both’ mode to prevent submission when Region rendering is on
  • Changed warning/non-fatal SMTD messages to be in orange
  • Fixed Master Job spawning of Batch Jobs on a Deadline Slave
  • Fixed bugs in the 3dsCmd and 3dsMax plugins that referred to properties that didn’t exist
  • Fixed bug where Deadline would try to assign padding to a file even though single output was specified

Cinema 4D Improvements

  • Added support for the token system
  • Added a Cinema4DBatch plugin that will keep the C4D scene loaded between Tasks

Draft Improvements

  • Changed Tile Assembly to be done locally before the result is copied to the output folder

Harmony Improvements

  • Added an integrated submission installer for Harmony

Houdini Improvements

  • Added ability to have a custom sanity check for Houdini jobs

Maya Improvements

  • Fixed the MayaCmd plugin to support spaces in the Maxwell -mxs path
  • Added Maya output prefix support for VRay’s Render element checkboxes
  • Fixed the input melscript to no longer be a unicode file

Microstation Improvements

  • Added ability to batch-submit multiple design files
  • Added ability to run Microstation key-in scripts as a Deadline Job
  • Added ability to run Microstation VBA scripts as a Deadline Job

Modo Improvements

  • Fixed a bug with Path Mapping that could lead to corrupted Modo scenes

Rhino Improvements

  • Added a handler for a successful plugin installation pop-up
  • Updated Rhino submitter and plugin to work with Maxwell 3
  • Consolidated redundant popup handlers

Sketchup Improvements

  • Added support for Sketchup 2016

VRay Spawner Improvements

  • Updated VRay DBR jobs to support dynamically adding/removing VRaySpawner nodes
  • General overhaul of the “Setup VRay DBR With Deadline” UI

VRay Standalone Improvements

  • Added region support for VRay standalone
Privacy | Site terms | Cookie preferences