Hi,
According to Hristo Velev’s blog post yesterday, v3.5.3 (not yet released, I just checked today), will I guess have improved STDout for network sim progress?
velevfx.com/2013/09/28/a-more-ro … urce=pubv1
Users have asked several times for this over the years and I had completely forgotten about it as it was out of Deadline’s hands really.
However, looks like just a simple tweak/creation of a STDout handler will be required in the 3dsmax.py plugin file to support this?
Thanks,
Mike
From what Hristo told me, the change that Kreso made was to allow a post-step MAXScript of FumeFX (which has been there since day one) to now be set via… MAXScript! 
In the past, you had to paste the necessary Deadline code yourself via the UI. Now a MAXScript submitter can do that by inserting
fn PostStep =
(
if DeadlineUtil != undefined then
(
SimProgress = ceil (slidertime.normalized * 100)
DeadlineUtil.SetProgress SimProgress
)
)
into the FumeFX script before submitting to Deadline.
So unfortunately it is still up to the FumeFX Submitter to do the work and not to Deadline to parse some output…
-1 shame 
This all seems a bit backwards! Would it not be better to improve the overall STDout of all FumeFX processes to the benefit of all FumeFX / Deadline / other renderfarm users, instead of having to implement additional ‘workaround’ code for the times when you want the % progress feedback? I mean; what FumeFX user doesn’t want some feedback on the progress of their sim instead of blindly running it on the farm?
Maybe if somebody could have a chat with Kreso and see if this could be implemented in the FumeFX core…? 
FumeFX Sim Progress in Deadline More to come…
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