Multi dependent jobs

Deadline
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Hi Ryan

As far as I know, you can submit a job dependent of another in 2 steps and you first need to get the jobId from the first job before submitting the second

Is there another way to do that ? I mean without waiting for a jobId

Also can you describe more in details what has been done for Renderman in your new 5.1 release ?

Cheers
Guy

2

Hi Guy,

You can use the SubmitMultipleJobs command line option to set up multiple dependencies:

C:\Users\Ryan>deadlinecommand -help submitmultiplejobs

SubmitMultipleJobs            Submits multiple jobs at once
  [-dependent]                This flag makes each job in the list of jobs
                              specified dependent on the previous job
  [-notify]                   This flag displays a notification window after
                              the jobs have been submitted
  [-job <Job Files>]          This flag must precede each list of files for
                              each individual job being submitted. You can
                              also add the -dependsonprevious flag to make a
                              single job dependent on the previous job

In 5.1, there is a new PRMan plugin, which supports Renderman’s method of storing rib files in separate folders per frame:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-5-prman/

We added this plugin mainly because we needed it to support exporting rib files from a Maya scene and then rendering them afterwards:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … Export_Job

If you have any specific questions about any of this, let me know!

Cheers,

  • Ryan