When we submit a job that contains the following frame list: 1-300x5
The frame range column in the Job Panel displays : 1,6,11,16,…ect to 300
Why isn’t it kept like this “1-300x5” because its way too long and if we want to check the frame range afterwards its not practical.
Plus, if we want to build an FG map for a Maya scene, we’d like to have the possibility to be able to send a job with a single task, but rendering every 5 frames for example.
Because its wasting time reloading the scene every 5th frame: 1,6,11,16,…ect to 300.
Currently, those frame list formatting options are just shortcuts. Under the hood, Deadline splits them up into an array and works with them like that. For display purposes, maybe we could store the original shortcut as a job property and use that instead.
For building an FG map, I think you could submit a job with the “Use MayaBatch” option disabled, and then specify “-b 5” (without the quotes) as an additional command line argument. You would also set the frames per task to equal the number of frames (300 in your case). This should create a single task job, and your “-b 5” argument should override our “-b 1” argument.