Dialog suppression for Network Cloth simulation?

Deadline
1

We are having an issue when we try to network render cloth sims using 3d Studio Max.

Deadline keeps returning an error saying that a dialog has popped up on the slave machine. This dialog is the simulation dialog for cloth within Max.

I am looking for a way to suppress the dialog itself but barring that the only other option is to have Deadline ignore the dialog issue.

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.

-Paul

2

Hey Paul,

Can you post the error message that Deadline is returning? It should contain a dump of the dialog, which we should be able to use to create a popup handler rule for it.

Thanks!

  • Ryan
3

here is what we have…

0: WARNING: Detected popup dialog "Cloth".
0: WARNING: ---- dump of dialog ----
0: WARNING: Button: Cancel
0: WARNING: msctls_progress32: Progress1
0: WARNING: Static: Current Frame: 
0: WARNING: Static: 0/ 30
0: WARNING: Static: Elapsed Time:
0: WARNING: Static: Av. Frame Time:
0: WARNING: Static: Est. time remaining:
0: WARNING: Static: 0:00:00.391
0: WARNING: Static: 0.39s
0: WARNING: Static: 0:00:11.730
0: WARNING: Static: Last Frame Time:
0: WARNING: Static: 0.00s
0: WARNING: Static: Current step size (dT): 
0: WARNING: Static: 0.002500s
0: WARNING: Button: Message
0: WARNING: Edit: 
0: WARNING: Button: Close on finish
0: WARNING: Edit: 
0: WARNING: ---- end dump of dialog ----

Let me know if there is more that you need. If this gets fixed when/how can we get an update?

-Paul

4

Thanks! First, we’ll try ignoring the popup, since odds are it’s not halting the simulation process. If you open the file \your\repository\plugins\3dsmax\3dsmax.py, you should see a section in a function called InitializeProcess( … ) with a bunch of these:

self.AddPopupHandler( ... ) self.AddPopupIgnorer( ... )

If you do a text search for AddPopupIgnorer, it should bring you to it right away. Then along with the other popup ignorers, add this new line:

self.AddPopupIgnorer( "Cloth" )

Save the file, and you should be good to go. Let us know if this helps, and we’ll be sure to include it in the next release.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
5

That did the trick.

Thanks,
Paul