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    Step by step instructions for submitting Maxwell jobs with Qube!

     

    Step 1

    Maxwell does not currently have "InApp" support, so you will submit from WranglerView. Open the Submit menu and choose "Maxwell Render Job..." as shown here.

    Step 2

    You will be presented with a Submission UI like this. Ensure sections marked in red have the correct details.

     

     

    Step 3

    Click "Submit"

    For further details on the submission UI see below.

    Additional

    If you have selected the tick box "Enable Co-op Renders" you will be presented with a secondary window

     

    Repeat Step 3

    Troubleshooting

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

    Troubleshooting Flowcharts 

     

    Job Submission Details

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

     

     Maxwell: Version and Location

    maxwell path

    Tooltip - explicit path to Maxwell v2 executable.

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    browse or enter manually the location of Maxwell.exe on the workers

     Maxwell: Common Render Controls

    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

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    Setting this to co-op will create a secondary MXIMerge job that combines the finished MXI's upon completion

    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'

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    If Co-op rendering is selected you can choose the Sampling level for the final render

    Sampling Level

    Tooltip - Quality level for the render, overrides Sampling value saved in MXS.

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    Provide a numeric value for the Sampling override

    Render Time Limit

    Tooltip - Time (in minutes) that the renderer is allowed to run (per-frame), overrides Time value saved in MXS.

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    Provide a numeric value for time in minutes that the render is allowed to commense

    Resume Rendering

    Tooltip - automatically resume the render if the MXI file exists

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    Tick box to resume render when previous MXI files exist

     Maxwell: Files

    MXS scene file

    Tooltip - MXS scene 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 - full path and name of the image file.

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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

    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

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    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

    script

    Tooltip - Load and run a given script

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    Browse or manually enter the required scripts

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

    prescript

    Tooltip - Load and run a given script

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    Browse or manually enter the required prescripts

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

    postscript

    Tooltip - Load and run a given script

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    Browse or manually enter the required postscripts

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

    bitmaps

    Tooltip - Set an alternative folder path for the bitmaps location. If "0", then will discard all the bitmaps

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    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

    overridemat

    Tooltip - Override all materials in the scen using the material indicated in the path

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    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

    curdir

    Tooltip - Set the current directory of the OS.  This could be useful for using relative paths for textures and other dependencies.

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    Browse or manually enter the location of the current directory

    dependencies

    Tooltip - Set an alternative folder path for the dependencies location.

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    Browse or manually enter the location of the required dependancies

    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.

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

    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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    Tick box to rename MXI file upon completion


     Maxwell: Image

    res

    Tooltip - resolution override (WxH)

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    Used for overriding the scenes resolution. IE: 800x600

    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".

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

    depth

    Tooltip - image depth

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    Used to override scenes current image depth settings.

    channels

    Tooltip - specify channels layers that Maxwell will export (r,a,ao,s,m,i,z<min/max>)

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    Click choices to override the export of channels layers.

    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

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

    zmin

    Tooltip - zmin value of the zbuffer channel

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    Used to override the zmin values

    zmax

    Tooltip - zmax value of the zbuffer channel

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    Used to override the zmax values

    alphaopaque

    Tooltip - Enable the opaque mode in alpha channel

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    Tick box to enable

    alphaembedded

    Tooltip - Enable alpha embed

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    Tick box to enable

    embedded

    Tooltip - Embeds the selected channel when the output format allows it

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    Tick box to enable

    channelsembedded

    Tooltip - Enable/disable embedding all the channels as images layers if the format supports it

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    Tick box to enable

    color

    Tooltip - set a color space

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    Click choices to override the color space required

    camera

    Tooltip - camera to render (otherwise defauls to active camera)

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    Used to override the chosen camera if multiple are available

    defaultmat

    Tooltip - Indicate the path to the default material

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    Used to override the path to the default materials

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

    burn

    Tooltip - set the burn value

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    Enter a number to override the burn value

    gamma

    Tooltip - Set the gamma value

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    Enter a number to override the gamma value


     Maxwell: Rendering

    pass

    Tooltip - Set the render pass

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

    multilight

    Tooltip - Enable multilight function storing an MSI file with separate information about the emitters

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

    extractlights

    Tooltip - Save each light in a separate file if Multilight is enabled

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    Tick box to enable

    devignetting

    Tooltip - devignetting value

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    Set numeric value to override scene defaults

    scattering

    Tooltip - scattering value

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    Set numeric value to override scene defaults

    displacement

    Tooltip - Enable/disable the displacement calculations for the whole scene

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    Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

    dispersion

    Tooltip - Enable/disable the dispersion calculations for the whole scene

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    Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

    motionblur

    Tooltip - Enable/disable the motion blur calculations for the whole scene

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    Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

    dodevignetting

    Tooltip -

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    Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

    doscattering

    Tooltip - Enable the lens scattering for the renderer

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    Tick box to enable and override scene defaults

     Maxwell: Render process

    verbose

    Tooltip - Verbosity level

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    Choose from the level of detail you would like the logs to provide

    threads

    Tooltip - number of threads to render with (0 means use maximum number)

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

    priority

    Tooltip - Maxwell Renderer process priority

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    Choose the required CPU priority for the job on the worker

    slupdate

    Tooltip - [seconds] Force the engine to refresh the sampling level info at the given ratio instead of doing it automatically.

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    Enter a numeric value in seconds for refresh of sampling info

    mintime

    Tooltip - Set the time to impose a minimum time for saving MXI files to disk, like the new preference "Min.Time"

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    Enter a numeric value in minutes for automatic saving of MXI files to disk

    nomxi

    Tooltip - Force Macwell Render not to save an MXI file but just the output image

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    Tick Box to force Maxwell not to create MXI files while rendering

     Maxwell: Internal (readonly)

    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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    enter a comma separated list of frames to internally set the range value

     Click here for details...

    Cmd Template
    This is used to create the command string for launching the job on the worker. It will be set differently depending on the application you are launching from.

    Shell (Linux/OSX)
    Explicitly specify the Linux/OS X shell to use when executing the command (defaults to /bin/sh).

     

     

     

     

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