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Network Job Assignment Dialog 185
Procedure
To use the Networ k Job Ass ignment dia log:
The Network Job Assignment dialog is accessible
when you turn on the Net Render toggl e. The Net
Render toggle can be accessed from three different
dialogs used for rendering.
• Rendering menu > Render > Render Scene
dialog > Render Output group
• Rendering menu > Render To Texture > Render
Scene dialog > Render Settings g roup
•VideoPostdialog>ExecuteSequence>
Execute Video Post dialog > Output group
1. In the Render Scene dialog > Render
Output group, click t he ellipsis button and then
specify an output file name and path using
Universal Naming Convention (UNC) (page
3–1122)
. The easiest way to specify a UNC path
is to star t with Save In > My Network Places.
2. Turn on Net Ren der.
3. Click the Render button.
The Network Job Assignment dialog appears.
4. In the Network Job Assignment dialog, specify
ajobname.
Bydefault,thisisthefilenameofthecurrent
scene. Click the plus (+) button next to the Job
Name field to increment the job name. Unlike
the plus button in the fi le dialogs, this button
does not automatically launch the job.
Note: The software does not let you submit
multiplejobswiththesamename.
5. Determine whether to find the Manager
automat ically or manually. By default, the
software searches automatically for the
Manager using a network mask that you specify
in the dialog. Alter natively, tur n on Manual
Search and e nter the name or IP address of the
computer running the Manager program.
6. Click Connect to continue.
You see a listing of all servers available for
network rendering. Each server is marked with
a colored icon to denote its current status:
Green—Running and not rendering any jobs.
Yellow—Rendering another job. You can assig n
jobs to busy servers, and t he jobs will be
rendered in the order received.
Red—Failed. Try rebooting the server or
see
Troubleshooting (page 3–177) for more
information on failed servers.
Gray —Absent. Verify that the Server is currently
runningandthatithasnotbeen"Disallowed"in
the Week Schedule, see S
etting the Availability
for Render Nodes in the Managing Render
Nodes topic.
If a rendering Server is running on a
workstation that also has an interactive session
of the sof tware, you can still select that machine
for rendering. A second copy of the software is
launched to execute the network render.
You can view statistics of a particular Server
by right-clicking its name and choosing
Properties.
7. By default, if your job is to render multiple
frames, Use Al l Servers is on, which means all
servers will p articipate in the rendering job. If
you turn off U se All Servers, you can choose
individual servers for rendering.
8. Click Submit to send the job to the rendering
queue.