Frame fails, but not the job

Deadline
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Good day everyone,

and sorry for the strange title…it’s also probably very simple but I cannot find a suitable option.
I have three computers rendering an animation, and if one frame fails, Deadline interrupts all other computers, even when those are rendering without any hitch.

What I’d like to happen when a worker fails a frame is:

  • other computers continue rendering without restarting the job
  • the “failed” worker reloads the scene and retries to render the failed frame for an X number of times before giving up and movign on to another frame of the same job

How do I set Deadline to behave like that? I’m using 3ds Max 2022 and V-Ray 5.

Thanks.

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What you are describing sounds like the expected behavior of the plugin. Not sure why the entire job fails immediately in your case.

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What are your job settings?

Tools > Configure Repository Settings > Job Settings > Failure Detection

If ‘Job Failure Detection’ is set to ‘Mark job as failed…’ and is set to 1 it will fail the job automatically after a single error
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If you have issues with specific frames it’s best to use ‘Mark task failed…’ option, this will fail that frame/task and not the whole job, allowing the rest of the job to render.

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Cheers, I totally missed that. Thanks.

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