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  1. Nuke Monitor Submission Script needs slightly more width as text is cut-off on OSX: “Enforce Render Orde”

  2. “Configure Cloud Providers…” > let the dialog open and then click cancel. Look in console for error message.

2014-01-07 14:49:08: PYTHON: Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-01-07 14:49:08: PYTHON: File “DeadlineUI\UI\Forms\VMControllerDialog.py”, line 678, in rejected
2014-01-07 14:49:08: PYTHON: AttributeError
2014-01-07 14:49:08: PYTHON: :
2014-01-07 14:49:08: PYTHON: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘Dispose’

  1. If I create a cloud region for the amazon plugin and called it “aws”, then double-click the region name and rename it to “mike” and close the dialog by pressing “OK” and re-open it, the region name is not remembered and is back to “aws”. However, if I do the above, but press “cancel” to close the dialog instead of “OK”, it remembers the region name as “mike”!!

  2. Getting various errors when I try renaming the Azure or OpenStack regions once created in the dialog:

2014-01-07 14:55:40: Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-01-07 14:55:40: File “DeadlineUI\UI\Forms\VMControllerDialog.py”, line 772, in onProvderListDataChanged
2014-01-07 14:55:40: KeyNotFoundException: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
2014-01-07 14:55:40: at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary2[System.String,FranticX.Scripting.AutoScriptControlItem[]].get_Item (System.String key) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 2014-01-07 14:55:40: at Deadline.Plugins.PluginParameterConfiguration.SavePluginConfiguration (System.String pluginName, IDictionary2 pluginConfiguration) [0x00000] in :0
2014-01-07 14:55:40: at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoMethod:InternalInvoke (System.Reflection.MonoMethod,object,object[],System.Exception&)
2014-01-07 14:55:40: at System.Reflection.MonoMethod.Invoke (System.Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, System.Reflection.Binder binder, System.Object[] parameters, System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture) [0x00000] in :0
2014-01-07 14:56:15: Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-01-07 14:56:15: File “DeadlineUI\UI\Forms\VMControllerDialog.py”, line 449, in selectedProviderChanged
2014-01-07 14:56:15: KeyError: u’openstack’
2014-01-07 14:56:18: Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-01-07 14:56:18: File “DeadlineUI\UI\Forms\VMControllerDialog.py”, line 449, in selectedProviderChanged
2014-01-07 14:56:18: KeyError: u’openstack’

  1. Empty “Balancer” directories created in the repo root directory. Is this correct?

  2. Can we add a feature to enable the MongoDB RESTful API when we install the database via the repository installer via an optional checkbox in the installer wizard? If I go to “http://mbp.local:28017/serverStatus?text=1”, I get the message that “–rest” needs to be added to when ./mongod is started-up on each mongod instance.

–“REST is not enabled. use --rest to turn on.
check that port 28017 is secured for the network too.”

This is important when users want to use the mongo webpage to view their replicaset cluster setup. However, the “–rest” option should be off by default as it is a small security risk.

  1. See attached screen-grabs 1.png & 2.png. Missing either various full-stops at end of message (multiple instances of this issue) or use of CAPITAL “S” instead of lowercase “s” which would be in keeping with all the other command messages.

  2. Can we add RSS feed functionality to ALL our software release announcement boards? Looks like phpBB supports this via ATOM: phpbb.com/community/viewtop … 98171&f=46

  3. “View History” - history entries is now getting nicely rich in information. Could do with a filtering function to help users. Filter by User, Machine, etc? Would be good if history entry logged not just for super-user, but what (user group) a particular user is in, in the history message.

  4. In node view, there are times when I can get into a situation where no matter how many times I try, the “up” spinner in the zoom spinner fails to work. The “down” arrow spinner works during this time. It;s just the “up” arrow that fails to work. I have to either un-select the job & re-select it in the job list view and try again OR, do some clicking of the “-” & “+” zoom buttons and then it normally comes back to life. - on OSX, didn’t test Win OS.

  5. Can we add the following feature to the node view - zoom controls as I really feel this is missing: “draw a bounding box & zoom IN to this area” type of function.

  6. See attached 3.png for “middle elide” text getting chopped off issue in node view.

  7. Node view - If I select (highlight) the zoom integer number so, it goes “green” and then use the middle mouse button on OSX to zoom in or out, the thing will only go 1 way. ie: At 10% zoom level, it will zoom in step’s of 1% down to 0% but will not go above 10% in the other direction!? (I had 14 nodes visible in the node view)

  8. I think it would be useful if the exact deadline version & currently used license server was also displayed in the application title bar in Monitor, Slave, Pulse & Balancer. ie, something like this:
    “Deadline Monitor (6.1.0.54343 R / @mbp.local) - /Applications/Thinkbox/DeadlineRepository6 (mbp.local:27017)
    Then, whenever you look at just a screen-grab of a client’s monitor/slave/pulse/balancer, you can see exactly what their local settings are. Obviously screen real-estate might be an issue. Smaller font size in title bar?

  9. Multi-Frame/Multi-Region [RAW Buffer] Job Name isn’t consistent with the other job names submitted. See attached 4.png screen-grab image.

  10. “Image Size” in task list is empty/broken? See attached completed Max 2014 job.

  11. Draft is lacking support for other EXR compression types other than ZIP1 / ZIP16 : compressionTypes = [‘RAW’, ‘RLE’, ‘ZIP1’, ‘ZIP16’, ‘PIZ’, ‘PXR24’, ‘B44’]. So, I can save using the other EXR compression types an image file out of 3dsMax, but Draft Tile Assembler will only assemble it to ZIP1 or ZIP16 by the looks of things? Am I right?

  12. Whether multi-channels are embedded into the main EXR image file saved out of 3dsMax or not (saved out individually using the standard 3dsMax way). Either way, the Max jobs are still getting submitted with the VRay RAW buffer render output as a monitor output path. We need to check in SMTD for a couple of factors to be correct and only then submit this additional monitor output path:
    a. Is VRay assigned as the renderer
    b. Is VRay VFB enabled?
    c. For both vray raw image filename & vray split render channels, we should check for each if they are enabled or not?

  13. When submitting “State Set” enabled Max files via SMTD, if the checkbox at the top of the StateSet tab: “Add State Set Name to Output Filename” is checked, then the subsequent Draft Tile Assembler jobs fail as they are not looking for the correct filename(s)! Needs updating to take into account the modified STATE SET filenames.

  14. When submitting “State Set” enabled Max files via SMTD, if the checkbox at the top of the StateSet tab: “Add State Set Name to Output Filename” is checked, any saved out individually RE’s are not saved with the same extra “prefixed” STATE SET name in their filename and as a result, they overwrite each other for each state set. Needs updating.

  15. When submitting “State Set” enabled Max files via SMTD, the Draft Tile Assembler dependent jobs need to have a corresponding job name as per attached screen-grab: 5.png

  16. Draft Tile Assembler fails to assemble the modified [STATE SET] named files coming from the main 3dsMax render “outputfilename”.

Screengrabs_1-5_pngs.zip (1.47 MB)

owenm__3dsmax__DraftTileRenderingTest_MultiRegions_SingleFrame_Multi-Channel_EXRs - Region 1 ( Multi-Frame - 1 Region, 4 Sub-Regions)__52cd461971bd0c03b417d433.zip (156 KB)

#2

Yes, currently Draft always uses ZIP1 for scanline images, and ZIP16 for tiled images. Support for other compression types is on our wish list for future development.

#3

Thanks Mike!

  1. Will be fixed in RC2.

  2. Will be fixed in RC2.

3-4. The ability to rename wasn’t supposed to be in there, so removing it “fixes” these issues.

  1. Yes, this is where the balancer logic plugins would have ended up (which isn’t supported yet). The empty folder is harmless.

  2. Added to the todo list to 6.2, since 6.1 is now feature locked.

  3. We’ll try to address all of these for RC2.

  4. Added to the wish list.

  5. Hmm, not sure about this one way or the other. Ideally, we’d like to keep the title bar clean. We’ll add to the wish list for now.

  6. It’s because it’s a tile job. A lot of the output related features simply don’t work for tile jobs like they do for regular animation jobs.

I’ll let Bobo and/or Grant comment on the rest!

Cheers,
Ryan

#4

Hey Mike

10,12,13: Completed will be in next build
11. Not gonna happen for 6.1 we can see for 7
18. We know what needs to be done and it is aimed for 6.2, there are actually around 10 different files that this can happen to so we are gonna do them all at once then.

Grant

#5

#18 is specific to the VRay VFB and whether or not it is saving out the RAW or split channels image files. Not sure what other 10 different files you are referring to as this wasn’t an issue before the VFB RAW/SplitChannel render output functionality was added. Perhaps I misunderstand?

#6

The output file locations have always been there or at least should have been as far as I can tell from the code (it was around before I joined) it should also be including Irradiance Maps, caustics, photonMap, and Light cache (Looked like 10 cause there were 2 for each). So we would need to special case each one

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