How would I go about submitting a mantra job (based off of generated ifds) through Houdini instead of through the Deadline Monitor gui? I assume the solution is maybe one long command line string I’d have to generate? Where would I find the syntax for that?
Why would I want to do that? To save time and prevent errors.
I’m not very familiar with our Mantra workflow support unfortunately, but there should be some options within the integrated submitter. I think it should be able to automatically create a dependany mantra job for you automatically.
If you’re not using that now, instructions on how to install it can be found here:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … ript_Setup
Yup, already tried that. It’s a nice script, but it only submits whole houdini hip files to the farm, not a batch of ifd files. Well, it’s supposed to, but I couldn’t get it to work, even after naming the script to what it was expecting.
(The py script that the created houdini menu item calls is not the same name as the script provided.)
Hello,
That doesn’t sound like a good thing. Can you elaborate a bit on what you are seeing so I can have the devs look it over? Thanks!
I’m not seeing anything, that’s the problem. There’s no command line output, no console output, nothing.
And from what I can tell the plugin for Houdini only submits a hip file, not a sequence of ifds to be rendered, which is what I need as I’m the only one at my studio with Houdini and we only have one license.
Please help 
Hello,
In taking a look at this, it sounds like Submit Dependent Mantra Standalone Job is the option you want for submitting IFDs instead of HIP files. Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Dwight
“Submit Dependent Mantra Standalone Job” Is that a script? A python class? A command line option? I can’t find that string in the documentation.
Also, what are the files that I need?
I have “SubmitToDeadline.py” and “DeadlineHoudiniClient.py” , but the MainMenuCommon.xml insert calls for the file “DeadlineHoudiniClient.py”
Is that file misnamed? Or am I missing a file?
Hello,
You would actually find this as an option in the Houdini submitter. If you choose Override IFD export, the option will show up below it. Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Dwight