I was able to render out tiles but when I drag the first file onto the assembler executable it tells me it’s building the image but doesn’t create a file. Am I doing this right?
Tile jobs attempt to assemble the tile after the last tile has finished rendering. If the image wasn’t assembled, then an error occurred, and you’ll have to find the last task that finished rendering and check the bottom of its render log for the error message. In Deadline 3.1, there will be an option to submit all tiles in one job, and submit a dependent assembly job. This way, if an error occurs during assembly, it will be more obvious to the user.
To manually assemble the image, you should try running the tile assembler from the command line. If you run the assembler without any arguments, you’ll see it’s usage, as well as the formats that it supports (not all formats are supported). You can use the -v 5 option to increase verbosity. If the tiles are not cropped (ie: the tile is the same resolution as the final image, with just a particular region rendered), you should use the --not-cropped option.
Cheers,
- Ryan