Found what I needed! :) Commandline options, I've sucessfully created my first submit :)
http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/deadline-5-submission/#Creating_Submission_Files_And_Submitting_Them_To_Deadline regards stefan On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Paul Griswold < [email protected]> wrote: > > I think you should be able to comment out most of what you don't want to > appear. Quite a lot of the options work fine if nothing has been filled in > since they should have defaults set with the Monitor, so commenting them > out shouldn't make a difference. > > Anything else could be fixed in the def SubmitButtonPressed args (I > assume). > > -Paul > > > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > -- *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
