If I submit a job where two bitmaps with the same name are referenced in a 3D studio Max scene, and I’m using the option to copy my assets to the repository and merge xrefs, deadline will fail with an error message that bitmap names must be unique.
It would be great if deadline would handle this differently. Deadline could offer a couple options: the first would be to ignore duplicate map names and simply use the first or last file it encounters. Second would be to rename conflicting bitmaps with a unique hash. And third might be to fail the job…
Most of the time I would assume that if there are two files with the same name in the scene then they are probably the same thing.
Thanks!
-Donald Newlands