Hello,
I really like the “Preview Render” thing in 3dsmax. I was wondering why the preview job is suspended by default. Is there a chance to define that on the submission dialog?
Thanks,
Tim
Tim,
Are we talking about the option to submit two jobs (preview job + rest of the frames?).
By design the preview frames should be submitted as active, the rest as dependent on the first job (Pending).
If you are getting a suspended job, it might be a bug - a job can be left suspended in some cases, for example if submitting external files (bitmaps) could not be copied or something like that. Can you read the LOG file of the submission and make sure there is not mentioning of suspending the job for some reason?
Cheers,
Borislav “Bobo” Petrov
Technical Director VFX
Frantic Films Winnipeg
Hi,
It should work like “Preview job + rest” as you mentioned.
In the log I found this on the log:
[17:52:36] : >Restoring Original External File Paths…
[17:52:37] : >Copying 0 External Files To Repository…
[17:52:37] : >Job was submitted as Suspended to allow External Files transfer. Resuming Job…
The textures in this project are on the server. I changed the setting to “Do NOT copy Bitmaps to Repository”.
It works now!
Thanks,
Tim
Looks like a bug than :o)
Thankfully, I am currently reworking that part of the script, so I hope this problem will be gone with the next SMTD update.
Thanks!