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titleScene and Directories

Scenefile

Tooltip - Path to Maya scene (required)

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Browse or enter manually the location of the scene file to be rendered. This is a required field for submission

Important: Best practise is to ensure the scene file and all of its dependant files such as textures are on network storage accessible by the workers.

Project dir

Tooltip - Path to Maya project directory

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Browse or enter manually the location of the project directory

Important: Best practise is to ensure the project directory and all of its dependant files such as textures are on network storage accessible by the workers.

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titleCameras/Layers/Lights

Cameras

Tooltip - List of cameras to render (space-separated)

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placeholderChoose from pre polutated and or enter manually cameras to override scene settings

Layers

Tooltip - List of layers to render (space-separated)

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placeholderChoose from pre polutated and or enter manually layers to override scene settings

EnableDefaultLight

Tooltip - Enable Default Light

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placeholderChoose from drop down to override scene settings


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titleRenderer

Renderer

Tooltip - Renderer Override

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placeholderChoose from drop down to override scene settings

Render Threads

Tooltip -each subjob should use. Set to -1 to sync with host.processors, 0 to use all cores on the worker

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Further explaination needed

Ignore Errors

Tooltip - Ignore Render-time Errors: ignore error messages that are generated during render-time that would otherwise cause frame failure

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placeholderTick box to enable ignore errors

Distributed Rendering

Tooltip - Enable Distributed Rendering (mental ray satellite OR V-Ray DR)

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Choose from drop down to override scene settings

see also How to use the mental ray Distributed Bucket Render (DBR) or V-Ray Distributed Render (DR) feature with Qube!

Maya Executable

Tooltip - Specify path to the maya executable file (mayabatch.exe for Windows), if you want to override the auto-detected default. (optional)

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Browse or enter manually the location of Maya executable on the workers

Important : Always double check the location of the workers executable being aware that if you are submitting cross platform the path will be different.


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titleImage File Output

Render dir

Tooltip - Path to Maya output render directory

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Browse or manually enter the location of the output image file you wish to generate

Important: Best practise is to ensure outputs are written to network storage accessible by the workers

File Name Prefix

Tooltip - Image file name prefix override

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Frame/Anim Ext

Tooltip -

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placeholderChoose from drop down to override scene settings

Frame Padding

Tooltip - Number of digits for frame number, e.g. 4 means name.XXXX.ext

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

Renumber StartFrame

Tooltip - The starting output image filename extension value.

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

Renumber ByFrame

Tooltip - The output image filename extension step ('by' or increment) value

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

File Extension

Tooltip - File extension name override. The string added at the end of the file name

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placeholderEnter the file extension value to override scene settings


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titleImage Size

Image Width (pixels)

Tooltip - Image width

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

Image Height (pixels)

Tooltip - Image height

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

Maintain Aspect Ratio

Tooltip - Maintain Aspect ratio

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placeholderSelect required option from drop down

Maintain Ratio

Tooltip - Maintain ratio

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placeholderSelect required option from drop down

Pixels/Inch

Tooltip - Resolution (Pixels/Inch)

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

Device Aspect Ratio

Tooltip - Device Aspect Ratio

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings

Pixel Aspect Ratio

Tooltip - Pixel Aspect Ratio

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placeholderEnter the numeric value to override scene settings


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titleMel Scripts

preRenderMel

Tooltip - The mel string to be executed before a scene is rendered

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placeholderEnter the script string

postRenderMel

Tooltip - The mel string to be executed after a scene is rendered

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placeholderEnter the script string

preRenderLayerMel

Tooltip - The mel string to be executed before a render layer is rendered

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placeholderEnter the script string

postRenderLayerMel

Tooltip - The mel string to be executed after a render layer is rendered

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placeholderEnter the script string

preRenderFrameMel

Tooltip - The mel string to be executed before a frame is rendered

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placeholderEnter the script string

postRenderFrameMel

Tooltip - The mel string to be executed after a frame is rendered

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placeholderEnter the script string

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_SimpleCMD_QubeJobTags
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