Below are instructions on your first steps submitting Maxwell jobs with Qube!
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Maxwell does not currently have "InApp" support Open the submission UI from Qube! WranglerView
File > Submit > Maxwell Render Job... |
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You will be presented with a Submission UI
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Ensure sections marked in red have the correct details Click submit For further details on the submission UI look in the right panel |
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If you have selected the tick box "Enable Co-op Renders" you will be presented with a secondary window
Repeat Step 3 |
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If you find you are getting errors here are some useful links for troubleshooting |
Below Is an expandable view of the "Maxwell Render 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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maxwell path Tooltip - explicit path to Maxwell v2 executable.
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Enable coOp Renders Tooltip - Perform a cooperative render. Make sure you set the "Instances" parameter to more than 1, in the "Qube Job Basics" section above
Coop Total SL Tooltip - (Cooperative Rendering only) - Final quality level for the coop render, when the MXIs are all merged. Set to 0 for all instances to respect the value set in the "Sampling Level" box below'
Sampling Level Tooltip - Quality level for the render, overrides Sampling value saved in MXS.
Render Time Limit Tooltip - Time (in minutes) that the renderer is allowed to run (per-frame), overrides Time value saved in MXS.
Resume Rendering Tooltip - automatically resume the render if the MXI file exists
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MXS scene file Tooltip - MXS scene to render
outputImage Tooltip - full path and name of the image file.
MXI output file Tooltip - MXI output file containing information about the rendering process. It allows for resuming previously rendered image. If not specified, the MSI will use the same name and path as the MXS scene
script Tooltip - Load and run a given script
prescript Tooltip - Load and run a given script
postscript Tooltip - Load and run a given script
bitmaps Tooltip - Set an alternative folder path for the bitmaps location. If "0", then will discard all the bitmaps
overridemat Tooltip - Override all materials in the scen using the material indicated in the path
curdir Tooltip - Set the current directory of the OS. This could be useful for using relative paths for textures and other dependencies.
dependencies Tooltip - Set an alternative folder path for the dependencies location.
resume Tooltip - Continue a render from a previously saved MXI file. To resume a previously rendered images and update the MXI file, this flag must be added.
renameoutput Tooltip - When this flag is used, Maxwell Render does not write the MXI file directly in the given output path; it write a temporary file and when the writing process finishes it renames it to the final path.
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res Tooltip - resolution override (WxH)
region Tooltip - type,x1,y1,x2,y2 : Specify if you want to render the full frame, a region, or blowup a region, specifying also the corrdinates of the rectangular marquee. Type is "full", "region", or "blowup".
depth Tooltip - image depth
channels Tooltip - specify channels layers that Maxwell will export (r,a,ao,s,m,i,z<min/max>)
channel Tooltip - [channel_name],[on|off],[depth(8,16,32)],[format] : Different channels that can export and their format. All the parameters are optional except for the first one. Examples: channel:alpha,on,32,tif... channel:material... channel:object,off
zmin Tooltip - zmin value of the zbuffer channel
zmax Tooltip - zmax value of the zbuffer channel
alphaopaque Tooltip - Enable the opaque mode in alpha channel
alphaembedded Tooltip - Enable alpha embed
embedded Tooltip - Embeds the selected channel when the output format allows it
channelsembedded Tooltip - Enable/disable embedding all the channels as images layers if the format supports it
color Tooltip - set a color space
camera Tooltip - camera to render (otherwise defauls to active camera)
defaultmat Tooltip - Indicate the path to the default material
burn Tooltip - set the burn value
gamma Tooltip - Set the gamma value
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pass Tooltip - Set the render pass
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multilight Tooltip - Enable multilight function storing an MSI file with separate information about the emitters
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extractlights Tooltip - Save each light in a separate file if Multilight is enabled
devignetting Tooltip - devignetting value
scattering Tooltip - scattering value
displacement Tooltip - Enable/disable the displacement calculations for the whole scene
dispersion Tooltip - Enable/disable the dispersion calculations for the whole scene
motionblur Tooltip - Enable/disable the motion blur calculations for the whole scene
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doscattering Tooltip - Enable the lens scattering for the renderer
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verbose Tooltip - Verbosity level
threads Tooltip - number of threads to render with (0 means use maximum number)
priority Tooltip - Maxwell Renderer process priority
slupdate Tooltip - [seconds] Force the engine to refresh the sampling level info at the given ratio instead of doing it automatically.
mintime Tooltip - Set the time to impose a minimum time for saving MXI files to disk, like the new preference "Min.Time"
nomxi Tooltip - Force Macwell Render not to save an MXI file but just the output image
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Internal(Range) Tooltip - (internally set from range value) Frames to animate\nSequence of frames to render [format: A,B-C,D-E(frames)]
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