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    titleScene and DirectoriesClick here for details...

    Scenefile
    Path to Maya scene (required)

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

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

     

    Project dir
    Path to Maya project directory

    Browse for or enter manually the location of the project directory.

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

     

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    titleCameras/Layers/LightsClick here for details...

    Cameras
    List of cameras to use for render (space-separated). Choose from pre-populated list and or enter manually cameras to override scene settings.

    Layers
    List of layers to render (space-separated). Choose from pre populated and or enter manually layers to override scene settings.

    EnableDefaultLight
     
    Choose from drop down to override scene settings.

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    Renderer

    Tooltip - Renderer Override

    Choose from drop down to override scene settings 

    Render Threads

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    Number of threads each subjob should use. Enter the numeric value to override scene settings. Set to -1 to sync with host.processors, 0 to use all cores on the worker

    Info

    Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

    Further explaination needed

    . Further explanation needed.

    Ignore Errors

    Tooltip - Ignore Render-time Errors: ignore

    Tick the box to ignore errors. This ignores error messages that are generated during the render

    -time

    that would otherwise cause

    frame failure
    Info
    Tick box to enable ignore errors

    frames to fail. 

    Distributed Rendering

    Tooltip -

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

    Info

    . Choose from the drop down to override scene settings

    see

    . 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

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

    Info

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

    Important : Always double check the location of the workers executable being

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    Important : Be aware that if you are submitting

    cross platform

    from one OS to another, the path to the executable will be different.

     

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    Render dir

    Tooltip - Path to Maya output render directory

    Info

    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

    Info

    Explaination needed

    Frame/Anim Ext

    Tooltip -

    Info

    Choose from drop down to override scene settings

    Frame Padding

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

    Info

    Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

    Renumber StartFrame

    Tooltip - The starting output image filename extension value.

    Info

    Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

    Renumber ByFrame

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

    Info

    Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

    File Extension

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

    Info

    Enter the file extension value to override scene settings


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