Submitting Blender Jobs From The Monitor

Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog
In the Deadline Monitor, open the Blender Submission Dialog from the Submit menu.
Step 2: Set Your Submission Options
The general Deadline options are:
- Job Name: The name of your job (if left blank, it will default to "Untitled").
- Comment: A simple description of your job (can be left blank).
- Department: Your department (can be left blank).
- Category: The category the job belongs to (default is "None").
- Pool: The pool that your job is submitted to.
- Use Machines In Pool Only: Only the machines in the specified pool will render your job.
- Task Timeout: The number of minutes a slave has to render a task for this job before it requeues it (specify 0 for no limit).
- Priority: Your job's priority (0 = lowest, 100 = highest).
- Enable Task Timeout: Whether or not to use the timeout given.
- Concurrent Tasks: The number of tasks a slave should dequeue for this job at once.
- Limit Tasks To Slave's Task Limit: Whether or not to limit the number of tasks the slave rendering this job can concurrently do.
- Machine Limit: The maximum number of machines that can render your job at one time (specify 0 for no limit).
- Machine list: A list of slave machines that is either blacklist or a whitelist.
- Machine is a blacklist: Whether or not the machine is a blacklist, if not it is a whitelist.
- Limit Groups: The limit groups that your job requires.
- Job Dependencies: Jobs that your job is dependent on.
- Submit As Suspended: Submit your job in the suspended state.
- On Job Complete: The action to perform on the jobs completion. Options are Nothing, Delete, or Archive.
The Blender specific options are:
- Blender File: The Blender file to be rendered.
- Frame List: The list of frames to render.
- Task Group Size: The number of frames per task.
- Submit Blender Scene File: The Blender file selected will be submitted with the job.
Step 3: Submit Your Job
Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.