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Hi Wizards! I'm trying to use the Deadline ROP to send sims/renders to farm, but it's not using the Environment Variables from my scene file. Any idea on how I can inherit the environment variables? Thanks!
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I am considering buying a dated computer but am uncertain if it is worth it. I plan to use it strictly for rendering using deadline and use my main computer for all of simulations. it uses an amd fx8300 cpu and ddr3 ram 1866. i am unsure if it will be running very slow because of its ag...
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Has any one been able to get TOPs and deadline working together? I've tried to send a couple of jobs with deadline scheduler but I was not getting any output... Deadline was also not returning any errors.
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Hey all, I have a large scale FLIP sim which I wish to distribute into slices and submit to a render farm using deadline. Following documentation from thinkbox and sidefx I have set-up a sliced sim ready for render however when submitting to deadline only 4 files are submitted (1 for each slice...
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Hey guys! I'm trying to setup deadline for a couple of machines for rendering in houdini with redshift. Deadline setup is ok. Caching and mantra rendering jobs finished successfully. When it comes to redshift job, deadline also receives it and distributes. But the rendering process happen...
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Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/desktop/Thinkbox/Deadline10/submitters/HoudiniSubmitter/DeadlineHoudiniClient.py", line 14, in <module> path = CallDeadlineCommand([ "-GetRepositoryPath", "submission/Houdini/Main" ]).strip() File "/home/desktop/houdini18.0/python2.7libs/C... -
Hey everyone, So just started deadline for Houdini and I've managed to send my rop output to deadline for rendering but when I explore the output file path, it shows file does not exist. However, when selecting the explore file path, it opens the correct pointed file directory where I want my...
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Hi guys! I installed Deadline recently and normally I have a multiple RS Rops where I define the render folder path with a string parameter in a null node. The thing is when I submit the render job to Deadline with the expression that I use for output I'm getting this error: (Syntax error... -
Hello, I'm looking to find out what off the shelf render farms people prefer currently for production; likes and dislikes? Short background: We need to use our nodes for Houdini, Max, Maya, fume, and a few other software. Currently about ~100 nodes, and we don't have a dedicated render farm...
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Greetings! To anyone using Deadline for rendering Mantra, could you advise what your successfull workflow is, please? I have a couple of questions about the HoudiniSubmitToDeadline parameters that I can't find definitions for in any docs. This url is the most useful: https://docs.thinkboxs...
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Hello All, I have scoured Solid Angle and Thinkbox support for answers to how to setup Deadline to generate ASS files to render them on Deadline farm. When I try to get Deadline to generate both, it fails out miserably. When I generate the ASS files locally (with VDBs correctly pathed) I get...
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Advantages: 1. Can work with other ROP nodes. As Example it can be called from Wedge ROP for automatic multi job submission. (for different takes or for automatic parameter change). 2. May submit any ROP node. DYNAMIC_ROP or GEOMETRY_ROP. Not only Mantra ROP. 3. All Submit Settings Saved in scene f...
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hey guys, So I got a new workstation this week, and i'm trying to setup my old system as a render/simulation node. I did get mantra rendering to work using deadline, but simulations aren,t working for some reason. I'm getting this error (see attached image) I also tried HQueue, but all my...
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Hi, I've completed and uploaded to the orbolt store my rop otl submitToDeadline . Who is it for: If you’re a Houdini freelancer or a mid-sized studio and you are looking to use Houdini on the renderfam in the most productive and painless way, and your renderfarm is managed with Thinkbox’s D...
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I'm trying to launch my Mantra renders from within the Houdini GUI. But, I've had no luck. I followed ThinkBox's instructions (and their script is named incorrectly) to install the menu button. And it doesn't work, no error, just nothing. http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-5-houdini/ Any ide...
