Hello, Im new to maxscript and trying to grasp and catch on. I was wondering how to access the network job assignment dialog? (just after you check network render and then hit render) I’ve accessed the rendering with do rener(), but network render is where i’m stumbled on. Any suggestions would be great.
I’ve spent some time doing network rendering somewhat recently, mainly for RTT to bake maps out via a farm. Let me tell you, it’s a pain in the a$$.
To answer your question though, I don’t think you can access that dialog easily anyway. The best options you probably have are to either create a batch file and use CMD to send a job to a server. Or use the built in MS functions/commands documented in the help to submit a job. Although, I had issues with that too.
So I ended up creating a CMD farm job via MaxScript, which is given a path to a batch file, which says, in my case, open max, open a max file, then run a ms file to process what I want.
The best option is to use Deadline instead… fully scriptable.
Bummer. Well appreciate everyone’s feedback
@ DaveWortley Cool and useful site! Keep up the posts. Very useful for a maxscript noob.
You could take a look at the simplified Net Render script on my site. It might help you sort it out by reverse engineering it. I created it trying to learn how to access net-rendering for some other scripts of mine. There are also a lot of topics on this here in the forums if you do a search.