Maya submission

Deadline
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Hi,

With the maya submitter, there is a possibility to sumbit multiple maya job at the same time. Is there any way the name the job with the same name of the file ?

Because right now the submitter is putting the same name on every jobs.

Thanks!

Fred

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To sync the name of Maya scene file with the to-be-submitted Deadline job hit a little arrow icon right to job name field in the Submission dialog box.
To submit multiple jobs at once I would use deadlinecommand from any loop function you want.
You can write job files before submitting the jobs and supply them as the arguments to deadlinecommand (Jon preffres this method). Or you can dump all the arguments into the single command line down to Shotgun and Draft arguments and parameters. Deadlinecommand then will create both plugin_info and job_unfo files on a fly (the method I like. But it is limited to what you can do).
Regardless of the method there are the endless opportunities to customize the job submission.
And it can be a quite fast to submit the jobs without using a supplied with Deadline maya submitter.

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I’m a bit confused by what functionality you’re referring to regarding submitting multiple Maya jobs at the same time, so you might have to clarify your question a bit. Are you using our Monitor submission, or the integrated submission from within Maya itself?

If you are referring to submitting multiple layers and/or Cameras as separate jobs in the Maya integrated submitter, the submission script should already be automatically appending the layer/camera name to the Job names (or allowing you to override them), so they should all be different…

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When i am in deadline, i open the maya submission script.

In maya file, i click the 3 dots. Then in the maya folder, i selec 5 job. I set my project directory and submit the job.

Then in deadline, the 5 job all have the same name, i would like that the job name have the name of each file.

Thanks !

Fred

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Aha, gotcha! I wasn’t even aware you could do that :slight_smile:

It definitely should be appending the file name to make the names unique, I’ll fix that and post an updated version for you here.

Cheers,

  • Jon
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I’ve attached the updated submission script. Simply extract the file to ‘scripts/Submission/MayaSubmission’ inside your repository. The Monitor submission should now append the scene file name to the Job Name when submitting multiple at the same time.

Cheers,

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Thanks !