I just submitted a job with multiple render layers and chose the Submit Render Layers As Separate Jobs toggle.
It then initiates the:
Write File
Submit File
loop for each one. I would prefer if it did a:
Submit loop, complete it
Then write the file once.
Make sense?
Thanks!
Thank you for the suggestion! We are investigating how this could be done. If it turns out to be reasonably straightforward, then we will implement it.
Can I ask the purpose of the change request? Is it hard to use as it currently works?
No, no usability issue, I was just watching what happens during submission.
I just published a ~650MB file in our pipeline and it will contain at least three or four render layers, it would waste a lot of time writing that file four times in a row over itself.
Cheers!
Hey, so we are only saving the scene file one time and then submitting it with the each of the jobs. So writing each of the job and plugin info files first would not actually help this out. In fact in some situations (such as region rendering) it could hurt it do to us needing to know the job id’s of all of the previous jobs.
Unless I am miss understanding something.
Grant
I tested my large scene and it was not so bad, no worries, it was just a thought initially.
Thanks!