Hi Paul! The installation that I have actually works, but what I want to do is to remove all the options for the users :) I tend to have quite a strict pipeline so that the users can't decide themselfs what to do more than submitting to the farm. I'm quite new to deadline, used it less than a day now.
So it works out of the box, but my users are given way to much freedom and choices... :) The user should basically have the options as follows - chose passes - set render range - set priority Any other option will not be allowed, that is handled by the other tools. So I would like to write my own submit script, just as I've done for Rush. Going to take a closer peek at the other submit scripts. best regards stefan On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Paul Griswold < [email protected]> wrote: > I've been using it since the Frantic Film days. I'm not sure I understand > what problems you're having. > > Deadline is pretty much self contained. Get the repository > installed & > running, get the clients installed on all the machines. Then load > Deadline Monitor, go into Super User mode and configure the paths to > Softimage & SoftimageBatch. Finally copy the file > [Repository]/ClientSetup/XSI/SubmitXSIToDeadline.py to the folder [XSI > Install Directory]/Application/Plugins > and then you'll have "Submit to Deadline" in your Render button. > > As long as the scenes & assets are all on UNC paths, it should work > without any other tweaking. > > You can then go into the Monitor and set up pools, groups, user groups, > etc., if you need to. > > If you go to the Thinkbox forums you can get access to Deadline 6 beta, > which is a pretty major change from the current Deadline. > > -Paul > > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi All! >> At my current place they have Deadline installed on a few machines. So I >> thought I should give that a shot, but I just can't get my head around it. >> Even though all the submit scripts are python, I feel like I'm running >> around in circles when I read them. And the "automatic script installation" >> failed, so I had to find the scripts and add a new sys path. >> >> Anyhow, before I go to the bosses and complain. Anyone with some Deadline >> ninja skills around? And since I tend to tweak a write a lot of my own >> stuff to keep the pipeline tidy, is deadline friendly enough to do that? >> >> best regards >> stefan >> >> >> -- >> *Stefan Andersson | Digital Janitor* >> blog <http://sanders3d.wordpress.com> | showreel<http://vimeo.com/sanders3d>| >> twitter <http://twitter.com/sanders3d> | >> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanders3d>| cell: >> +46-73-6268850 | skype:sanders3d >> >> >> > -- *Stefan Andersson | Digital Janitor* blog <http://sanders3d.wordpress.com> | showreel<http://vimeo.com/sanders3d>| twitter <http://twitter.com/sanders3d> | LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanders3d>| cell: +46-73-6268850 | skype:sanders3d
