I’m trying to render a sequence from a USD file using Arnold and the Arnold submitter in Deadline 10.4.2.2. In Monitor, it looks like a sequence has been rendered. I right-click on a frame, view output, usdTest_0008.jpg, for example, and receive an error that the output file does not exist. I browse to the folder to find usdTest_####.jpg and it is the very last frame of my sequence. How do I configure the output file in the submitter so that way it will append the frame number to the image that is output? Or is there an additional command line arg that I can add on the Job Options tab? Deadline appears to be appending the frame number correctly, but Arnold is not outputting the correct file name.
I was able to resolve this issue.
Instead of going to Submit > 3D > Arnold from the deadline File menu, go to Submit > Miscellaneous > Command Line.
In the Submission form, set your frame list, set the Executable line to your path to kick.exe on your render farm, then in the Arguments line enter the following information:
-i “path\to\file.usd” -frame -o “path\to\images\renderName_<STARTFRAME%4>.png” -dw
The tag will be replaced with the frame number when deadline sends the command to the farm. You can change your frame padding by changing the %4 to whatever number you need the frame number to output in your image name for your sequence.