viewing the rendered output doesn't work anymore

Deadline
1

Hi,

since we upgraded to DM 2.7, the "view rendered output" feature does not work correctly. If you right-click on a completed task of DFusion that contains more then 1 frame, the naming of the chooseable output files is wrong. The frame numbers are missing.

Is there some configuration setting, that solves this issue?

Another thing is the strange render time display that I get on auto-refreshs (7611h 58m 44s per task). How to fix this?

 

cheers

Marcus

2

Hi Marcus,



Which software are you rendering with? There is a bug in 2.7 which

removes the frame number padding, and I believe it affects only Maya. We

will be releasing a 2.7 maintenance release soon (more than likely at

SIGGRAPH) that will fix this bug, along with a few others that have

cropped up.



If you are using Maya, there is a workaround that you can implement to

get this working in the meantime:


  1. Open \your\repository\submission\maya\SubmitMayaToDeadline.mel in a

    text editor.


  2. Find this line (I believe it’s around line 1105):



    $FrameQuestionString = $FrameQuestionString + “?”;




  3. Replace the ? with a # so the line now looks like:



    $FrameQuestionString = $FrameQuestionString + “#”;




  4. Save the file and restart maya, then try to submit the job again.







    The auto-refresh bug is still on our todo list. It’s one of those little

    bugs that keeps falling off the priority list. :slight_smile:



    Cheers,
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Hi Ryan,

we use DFusion 4.04e. Can I modify the SubmitToDeadline.dfscript somehow to get a similar workaround as you discribed? What's the point in the job description file that makes it work or not?

Marcus

4

Hi Marcus,



For DFusion, you can open up

\your\repository\submission\DFusion\SubmitToDeadline.dfscript and find

this code around line 100:



if frameNumber == nil then

digits = “?”



while string.len(digits) < digitCount do

digits = “?” … digits

end

else

digits = tostring( frameNumber )



while string.len(digits) < digitCount do

digits = “0” … digits

end

end





Just replace the “?” instances with “#” and save the file. You should

then be good to go.



The problem is that Deadline is checking the path names in the job to

make sure there are no illegal path characters, which used to cause job

submissions to fail. That’s why the '?'s are stripped from the filename

and not the '#'s. We should probably just move all of our submission

scripts to use ‘#’, for the sake of conistancy if nothing else.



Cheers,

5

Works great, thanks for the quick reply smile

thumbs up, Marcus