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5. Maxwell Render Job Submission

Maxwell Render Job Submission

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

Troubleshooting Flowcharts 

maxwell path

Tooltip - explicit path to Maxwell v2 executable.

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

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.

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

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

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

Browse or manually enter the required scripts

Important: Best Practise is to ensure scripts are on network storage accessible by the workers

Browse or manually enter the required prescripts

Important: Best Practise is to ensure scripts are on network storage accessible by the workers

Browse or manually enter the required postscripts

Important: Best Practise is to ensure scripts are on network storage accessible by the workers

Browse or manually enter the location of the bitmaps file you wish to generate

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

Browse or manually enter the location of the textures you wish to replace

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

Browse or manually enter the location of the current directory

Browse or manually enter the location of the required dependancies

Browse or manually enter the location of the MXI file to be resumed

Tick box to rename MXI file upon completion

Used for overriding the scenes resolution. IE: 800x600

Used for specifying a specific region or section of the frame to render or enlarge.

Used to override scenes current image depth settings.

Click choices to override the export of channels layers.

Used to override different channels that can export and their format. see tooltip for examples.

Used to override the zmin values

Used to override the zmax values

Tick box to enable

Tick box to enable

Tick box to enable

Tick box to enable

Click choices to override the color space required

Used to override the chosen camera if multiple are available

Used to override the path to the default materials

Important: Best practise is to ensure materials are on network storage accessible by the workers

Enter a number to override the burn value

Enter a number to override the gamma value

Choose the pass from the drop down box to override scene defaults

Choose the required setting from the drop down box to override scene defaults

Tick box to enable

Set numeric value to override scene defaults

Set numeric value to override scene defaults

Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

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

Internal(Range)

Tooltip - (internally set from range value) Frames to animate\nSequence of frames to render [format: A,B-C,D-E(frames)]