Submit Cinema4D scene job with Textures included to Deadline

Deadline
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Thank you!!!

So for anyone who checks up on this thread. I updated the Cinema4DSubmission.py and added this to the end of the script:

if( len( sceneFiles ) == 1 ):
            # Extract the directory of the scene file
            scene_dir = os.path.dirname(sceneFile)

            # Path to the 'tex' folder within the same directory as the scene file
            tex_dir = os.path.join(scene_dir, 'tex')

            # Check if the 'tex' folder exists
            if os.path.exists(tex_dir) and os.path.isdir(tex_dir):
                print(f"'tex' folder found at: {tex_dir}")
                for file in os.listdir(tex_dir):
                    if not file.startswith('.'):
                        full_path = os.path.join(tex_dir, file)
                        arguments.Add(full_path);
            else:
                print("No 'tex' folder found in the scene directory.")
           
            print("executing command: %s" % " ".join(arguments))

            results = ClientUtils.ExecuteCommandAndGetOutput( arguments )
            scriptDialog.ShowMessageBox( results, "Submission Results" )

I check for a ‘tex’ folder and then upload all the files from the ‘tex’ folder onto the deadline.

@Justin let me know if you see any issues with this approach. The only overhead I see is copying the files multiple times to the render nodes, but that shouldn’t be too bad for now. I assume once a node picks up the next task in the same job, it doesn’t need to re-copy the job data, correct?

Another concern was from a different thread that the command could be too long so I probably should put the args in a .txt, eh? (C4D Auxfiles strategy).