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title	Qube Job Basics

Name

Tooltip - Name of the job

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This is the name of the job of the job so it can be easily identified in the Qube! UI

Priority

Tooltip - Numeric priority (

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Every job in Qube is assigned a numeric priority. Priority 1 is higher than priority 100. This is similar to 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, etc. The default priority assigned to a job is 9999.

Instances

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Instances are the amount of times you would like to spawn a session of your application

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On a 12 slot(core) machine running Maya if you set

"Instances" to 4

"Reservations" to "host.processors=3"

Qube! will open 4 sessions of Maya on the worker simultaneously consuming all slots/cores

if you set

"Instances" to 1

"Reservations" to "host.processors=1+"

Qube will open 1 session of Maya on the worker consuming all slots/cores ("host.processors=1+" is used for all slots/cores)

more on Instances & Reservations

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title	Qube Frame Range

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Execution

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title	Preview Frames Submission

Use Preview Frames

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Frame Numbers

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Preview Priority

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Preview Subjobs

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title	Render App Auto-Threads & Uses the Entire Worker

Render on all cores

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Min Free Slots

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title	Render App Uses a Specific Number of Threads

Slots = Threads

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Specific Thread Count

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Below are instructions on your first steps submitting Cinema 4d jobs with Qube!

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title	Step 1 (First Time Only)

The Cinema 4d Jobtype comes with the standard install of Qube! and does not require a specific jobtype to be installed

InApp Installation:

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File > Install App UI > Install Cinema4D (AppFinder) App UI...

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title	Step 2

Once installed you should be able to locate the "Qube!" menu in Cinema 4d

InApp Location:

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File > Script > User Scripts > Qube! Submit (Appfinder)

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title	Step 3

With a scene loaded in Cinema4d choose "Qube! Submit (AppFinder)"

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 AppFinder Jobs > "Aerender (AppFinder) Job..." Jobtype Submission UI

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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	Parameters

Cinema4D Version

Tooltip - Select version numbers to allow the job to find the right version of Cinema 4D executable on each worker.

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Use the spinners to enter the required version of Cinema 4d

C4D path

Tooltip - Leave it set to "_C4D_" to allow the job to find the right version of Cinema4D on the worker.

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Left default qube will automatically find the version of After Effects on the worker

renderFile

Tooltip - scene file to render

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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.

outputImage

Tooltip - output imagename

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

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

outputMulti

Tooltip - output multipass imagename

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

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

format

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Enter manually or select from drop-down

Important: when choosing the output format be aware that extensions such as .MOV or .AVI can not be distributed across the farm. Please select an image sequence based format such as .TIF etc

oresolution

Tooltip - <width> <height> for image resolution override

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Used for overriding the scenes resolution. IE: 800x600

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title	Qube SimpleCmd and Shell Parameters

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Shell (Linux/OSX)

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title	Qube Job Tags

Qube Job Tags

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title	Qube Worker Selection

Hosts

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Groups

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Omit Hosts

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Omit Groups

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Priority Cluster

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Host Order

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Requirements

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Reservations

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title	Qube Advanced Job Control

Flags

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Dependency

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Email (job complete)

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Email (failed frames)

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Blocked

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Job Label

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Job Kind

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Process Group

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Retry Frame/Instance

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Retry Work Delay

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Subjob Timeout

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Frame Timeout

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title	Qube Job Environment

Cwd

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Environment Variables

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Impersonate User

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title	Qube Job Run-time-OS-specific Environment Variables

Windows-only Environment Variables

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Linux-only Environment Variables

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Darwin-only Environment Variables

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title	Qube Job Validation & RegularExpression-based Output Parsing

Min File Size

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renderFile

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outputImage

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outputMulti

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exact number of threads to use for rendering (specifying 0 means optimal)

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Enter a numeric value for the amount of threads to be spawned on the workers while processing this job

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