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Below are instructions on your first steps submitting Maya jobs with Qube!

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title	Step 1 (First Time Only)

You will need to install the Maya jobtype

Installation:

Maya requires the "Maya jobtype" to be installed

If you are not familiar with the installation process please see Installation Guide & Installation Layout

You will need to select "Maya Jobtype" during the installation process

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Alternatively:

If you only wish to use the "batch maya jobs" you can install the InApp plugins via the Qube! WranglerView.

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File > Install App UI > Install Maya App UI

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title	Step 2

Once installed you should be able to locate the "Qube!" menu in Maya

InApp Location:

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File menu > Qube!

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title	Step 3

With a scene loaded in Maya choose "Submit Render Job..." or "Submit Batch Render..." depending on your requirements

This will present a pre filled submission UI

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title	Step 4

Ensure sections marked in red have the correct details

Click submit

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For further details on the submission UI look in the right panel

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title	Troubleshooting

If you find you are getting errors here are some useful links for troubleshooting

Troubleshooting Flowcharts

Below Is an expandable view of the "Maya Job..." Jobtype Submission UI

Note
Not all sections need to be filled in in order to render only the fields marked in red are required

Please click on the text below the section of interest

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title	Scene 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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title	Cameras/Layers/Lights

Cameras

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

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

EnableDefaultLight

Tooltip - Enable Default Light

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Choose from drop down to override scene settings

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title	Renderer

Renderer

Tooltip - Renderer Override

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Choose 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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Tick 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

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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title	Image 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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Explaination needed

Frame/Anim Ext

Tooltip -

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Choose 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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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Renumber StartFrame

Tooltip - The starting output image filename extension value.

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Renumber ByFrame

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

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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

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Enter the file extension value to override scene settings

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title	Image Size

Image Width (pixels)

Tooltip - Image width

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Image Height (pixels)

Tooltip - Image height

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Maintain Aspect Ratio

Tooltip - Maintain Aspect ratio

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Select required option from drop down

Maintain Ratio

Tooltip - Maintain ratio

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Select required option from drop down

Pixels/Inch

Tooltip - Resolution (Pixels/Inch)

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Device Aspect Ratio

Tooltip - Device Aspect Ratio

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

Pixel Aspect Ratio

Tooltip - Pixel Aspect Ratio

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Enter the numeric value to override scene settings

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title	Mel Scripts

preRenderMel

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

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Enter the script string

postRenderMel

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

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Enter the script string

preRenderLayerMel

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

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Enter the script string

postRenderLayerMel

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

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Enter the script string

preRenderFrameMel

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

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Enter the script string

postRenderFrameMel

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

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Enter the script string

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