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to help analyze your network rendering setup and better distribute the
workload.
Job list
The job list, located on the lower-right side of the Network Job Assignment
dialog, displays all jobs submitted to the network manager. Also shown are
each job's priority, status, and output file path.
To change job settings and manage jobs, use the Backburner Monitor. See
“Modifying Job Settings” and “Monitoring and Managing Jobs” in the Autodesk
Backburner User’s Guide.
Advanced Opens the
Advanced Settings dialog on page 6296 , where you can
make settings for Per-Job Timeouts, TCP port number, Pre-Render MAXScripts
and Job Handling.
Submit Click Submit to exit this dialog and send the current job to the
Network Manager, which places it in the queue for rendering.
When you submit a rendering job, if the output file name to be used by the
job is the same as that used by an existing job, you're asked if you want to
overwrite the existing file(s). Also, if the name of the submitted job replicates
one already in the rendering queue, an alert notifies you; click OK, change
the job name, and submit it again.
NOTE Submitting a job creates a folder for the job on the manager machine in
the \Program Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network\jobs\ folder. In that folder is a
compressed file with a .maz extension containing the scene file. You can extract
the scene from the command prompt using the maxunzip.exe program, found
in the 3ds Max program directory. For example, to extract a file named testfile.maz
, assuming the program is installed in a folder named \3ds Max 2008\ , open the
command prompt, navigate to the \Program
Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network\jobs folder, and enter this: “\Program
Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2008\maxunzip” testfile.maz . You must specify the
.maz file-name extension; otherwise you'll get an error message.
Cancel Discards changes and exits the dialog.
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