Unreal 4 Rendering submission script

Deadline
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Any chance someone has integrated the Unreal 4 Swarming feature into deadline as a submission script?

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Not that I’m aware of. How do you see this working? Similar to our current VRaySpawner plugin, where X number of Deadline Slaves are ‘reserved’ by running the “SwarmAgent.exe”, ready to receive ‘jobs’ from the Coordinator? Or are you expecting to somehow submit a ‘level’ to be distributed as a process across Deadline?

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Yep the VRaySpawner script seems to be a good place, I had in mind, as per your suggestion;

It would need to copy over a config file also, would it be possible to point out how the vrayspawner process starts as a child process via the current VRayDR script?

I think everything else should be (hopefully) be easy enough to work out (I was just being lazy and hoping someone had already done this)

Thanks Mike!

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OK, thanks for the feedback.
Could you explain what this config file does, where it exists and where it needs to be copied to? (assume I’m a total Unreal noob)
I’m not too sure what you mean by: “would it be possible to point out how the vrayspawner process starts as a child process via the current VRayDR script?” -this happens by default, as the Deadline Slave will run the VRaySpawner as a ManagedProcess and so will automatically be a child process. Is this the expected behaviour?

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Yeah ideally we would have the SwarmAgent.exe run as a managed process with the same behavior as VRaySpawner

This will be a noob explaining to a noob but I do my best;
There is an xml (SwarmAgent.Options.xml) that contains the config options for the SwarmAgent, which ideally would be written locally each time a job is submitted, it contains options for details on the co-ordinator to connect to and any other relevant information.

Here is a tutorial for a simple setup for added context;
forums.epicgames.com/threads/965487-Setup-Swarm

Ideally the SwarmCoordinator.exe would open on the machine that is submitting the job through, starting a managed process on the submitting machine is that a functionality that is in any of the other submission scripts?

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Cool. Thanks for the notes. I’ll add this to our wishlist for a future version.

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Mike,

We would very much like to see this in a future version as well, if my vote helps. I was just thinking of this very thing yesterday.

Thanks,

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no worries Mark. I’ll add it to my ever growing ToDo list :slight_smile: