Has anyone gotten Deadline to work with XSI 7? I’ve gone and changed DL to point to my XSI 7 directory, but when I submit scenes they are failing.
Also, you guys might want to check your main site - none of the links to the forums work.
Paul
Hi Paul,
Deadline 2.7 doesn’t officially support XSI 7, but 3.0 (which should be released in a week or two), will support it. In the meantime, you can add support for XSI 7 yourself by going to \your\repository\plugins\XSI and opening up the XSI.dlinit and XSI.param files in a text editor. In XSI.param, add these lines at the bottom of the file:
[RenderExecutable7]
Type=filename
Default=C:\Softimage\XSI_7.0\Application\bin\xsibatch.bat
Description=The path to the XSIBatch.bat file used for rendering. Use a ; to separate alternative paths.
In XSI.dlint, add this line:
RenderExecutable7=C:\Softimage\XSI_7.0\Application\bin\xsibatch.bat
After saving these files, you should be good to go. If you need to configure the path to XSI 7, you can do so in the XSI plugin configuration, which can be accessed from the Monitor by selecting Tools -> Configure Plugins while in super user mode.
The submission script should work the same as it did in XSI 6.
Regarding the forum links, we have redirected those links on our main site to point to the new forum location. You might have to clear your browser’s cache before the redirects will work. We will eventually be updating them to point directly to the new location.
Cheers,
- Ryan
Thanks Ryan!
Glad to hear Deadline is being updated soon. Will the submission problems from within XSI be fixed? Right now it doesn’t respect the frame numbers you specify.
Thanks!
Paul
Yup, that bug will be fixed in 3.0. The problem was related to how we were storing the SubmitToDeadline node in the XSI scene.
Cheers,
- Ryan