Im a 3d artist who wishes to use cloud rendering, after using deadline for years to manage renderjobs on two local machines. Ive purchased 50 dollars worth of maya and redshift credits to test for now however (after over 24 hours of trying(and counting)) i cant seem to get this working. I am currently at the state of trying to connect to a remote connection server. I entered in my IP address and the port number shown in the tutorials. i get the error “select a valid Repository or Connection Server to use.” Im starting to think my brain doesnt function at the level required to follow the tutorials ive found on youtube.
Is it possible for an artist to use deadline for cloud rendering on his own?
Is it possible to speak on the phone with someone who can walk me through this?
You’re not alone Mike, I’m having almost the same issue. but in my case my machines are seeing each other through the HTTP connection but it gives me an error. I’ve posted my issue over here:
I hope someone will be able to help us on this topic as I cannot find on the internet anything with easy instructions for RCS.
I was able to find another tutorial on a blog. It had added step to run this program deadlinercs.exe. After running it i can connect.
Great!
Okay but now more problems:
-asset server cant find my nas ( or i have failed to point it correctly)
-when i create an infrastructure my aws portal link goes offline.
Perhaps before I go on i should ask. Am i able to do cloud computing as a person who uses liscence free mode? I was using deadline for free because it was only on one computer but if im renting rendernodes through aws do i also have to buy deadline?
I’ve gotten back to you on your Asset Server + NAS issue in this thread.
As for the Portal Link going offline when you start an Infrastructure, that’s not quite what’s happening. Those green/red status labels just default to ‘Online’ when they get drawn in the UI for the first time (when you start the creation of an Infrastructure). But once the Infrastructure is started, the Portal Link starts trying to make connections. And usually the first couple fail so it flips over to offline. Give it a minute or two and it should swap over to online.
is there a phone number i can call someone about this on? what time does the support staff work so i can make sure i am on the web during the support hours?
also is creating infrastructures costing money? i am needing to do tests to get this to work but at this rate ill be at this for a very long time and dont want to go broke doing it ><
Infrastructures do cost money while they’re running as the Gateway EC2 instance costs money to run. If you want a rundown of what components cost money, check out our docs here.
Thanks for the info Justin. Spent 2 hours on the phone with customer service today. Very pleasant to deal with and he tried very hard to help but unfortunately after a 2 hour screenview session we couldnt figure out the problem. He made a ticket and then got back to me with a solution!
Apparently having a space in my username was an issue. we used a yaml file so we could put in the shortname of the directory for the ssh keys