Deadline tile render Assembly jobs for multipasses - Cinema 4d & Corona

Deadline
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Hi,

I’m trying to get deadline to assemble my multipasse tile renders. It renders the tiles out perfectly but it only assembles the RGB one. Any idea on how to fix this? I feel like it is not submitting additional assembly jobs for all the different multipasses.

Any help would be great!

Macler

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@Macler
Are you submitting the scene with Cinema4D Batch plugin? In the batch plugin, deadline creates a thread data file for the render scene for rendering and write the render settings in it. The easy way to troubleshoot this issue if its happening on Deadline or on Cinema 4D, we may have to submitting the scene with the non-batch plugin which pass an render argument " -omultipass". This flag will overwrite the scene’s Multi-Pass path and save the Multi-Pass to the c:\mp\ directory. Sequential frame numbers and Multi-Pass names will be added automatically.

After submitting a non-batch job for Cinema 4D, check if it returns the same behavior as of the batch mode. Feel Free to share the render log here on the thread or you can open Support Ticket with Thinkbox.

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@karpreet
I can only use the region rendering function of deadline when “Use Batch Plugin” is checked on the first tab of the “Submit to deadline” Window. So can you tell me how to submit a region / tile render without using the batch plugin?

ML

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Hello

I looked at the Submission Script for Cinema 4D to Deadline which lives in [Repo]/submission/Cinema4D/Main/SubmitC4DToDeadline.py on line#2868-2869

       elif id == self.dialogIDs[ "UseBatchBoxID" ]:
            self.EnableRegionRendering()

There is an if statement to check if “Use Batch Plugin” is enabled then the option to enable “Region Rendering” is available.

This can be removed but this might not be a supported workflow with non-batch plugin.

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Hi,

So we tried removing the statement but that did not have the desired result. We tried several things with in this script but we could not get it to work.

Reading the comment of @karpreet it feels like there is an easier way to submit a scene without the batch plug-in. Any idea on this?

ML

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Hello @Macler

I may have misunderstood the question. I think you were looking for a way to submit non batch job with tile rendering right?
You cannot do that without changing the script I mentioned in my last response. I also mentioned that only batch mode might support the region rendering so it is not a good idea to disable it.

Karpreet was talking about the main problem of multipass and how will you troubleshoot it further, I think he suggested to turn the batch mode off (by unchecking the “Use Batch Plugin” option in the submitter) just as a test to see if multipass issue goes away.