Render Every n Frame

Deadline
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Hello

Maya 2013, Deadline 5.0

We are trying to render every 5th frame but renumber the rendered frames incrementally from 1 by 1. We see that by selecting ‘Renumber Frames’ in Render Globals causes the batches to all render the same first frame over and over again, this is what we are experiencing. Could you please advise how we should go about this?

Many thanks.

Chris

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Hi Chris,

Here’s something you can try. When you submit your job, do the following in the submitter first:

  1. Disable the Use MayaBatch option.
  2. Add this to the additional command line options: -b 5
  3. Set the Frames Per Task to something high (like 10000) to ensure you only have 1 task for the job.

In theory, adding “-b 5” will override the “-b 1” we already pass to Maya, and by ensuring there is only one task for the job, renumbering the frames should work properly.

If this doesn’t work, another option could be to manually submit a command script job to Deadline where you specify the full command line to Maya’s Render.exe for each frame:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … andscript/

So you could specify a command line for each 5th frame, with the appropriate -rfs argument to renumber the frame. Since it would be a pain to manually type out each full command line, you could wrap this in a script that builds the command file and submits it to Deadline for you:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … Submission

Cheers,

  • Ryan