Modo Network Rendering Guide

• 1 Modo Network Rendering Guide
  • 1.1 Submitting a Modo job to Deadline
    • 1.1.1 Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog
    • 1.1.2 Step 2: Set Your Submission Options
    • 1.1.3 Step 3: Submit Your Job

Submitting a Modo job to Deadline

Modo jobs can be submitted from within Modo or from the Deadline Monitor.

Step 1: Open the Submission Dialog

• Inside Modo, under the system menu, choose Run Script. Alternatively you can also press F6.
• Choose the SubmitModoToDeadline.pl script from [YourDeadlineRepository]\clientSetup\Modo\.
  • Alternatively, you can also copy this script to your local machine and run it from there.

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).
• Pool: The pool that your job is submitted to.
• Group: The group that your job is submitted to.
• 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.

Modo specific options

• Scenet File: The scene file to render.
• Frame List: The list of frames to render.
• Frames per Task: The number of frames in a task.
• Submit Scene: Whether or not to submit the scene with the job.

Step 3: Submit Your Job

Click the Submit button to submit the job to Deadline.