Maya 2008 cpus to use - Deadline 2.7 with patch

Deadline
1

Hi.

We have problems rendering a scene with Maya 2008 (mental ray) and Deadline. If Renderlayers were created the slaves render only with 2 Cores (cpus to use in the submission ui is greyed out). I tried to change cpus to use in the defaultRenderGlobals but it didnt work. I’m shure it has something to do with the submission script.

[code]global proc int ShowCpuOption()
{
string $renderer = GetCurrentRenderer();

if( IntMayaVersion() < 5 )
	return 1;
else {
	// mayaSoftware and mentalray are the renderers that use the cpu option
	if( IsRenderLayersOn() == 0 ) {
		if( $renderer == "mayaSoftware" || $renderer == "mentalRay" || $renderer == "finalRender" )
			return 1;
	}
}

return 0;[/code]

So any help is welcome.

2

Ok i solved the problem. I just changed the return value on the bottom of the ShowCpuOption procedure to 1. So now you can always change the number of cpus to use, regardless of the renderlayer.

3

This oversight was fixed in the recent Deadline 3.0 release, but thanks for posting the solution for our 2.7 users!

Cheers,

  • Ryan