Arvid Schneider

Again, thanks Rob for the in depth help and the backport steps. I'll give that a go.
Havin a toggle would be great if that's technically doable!

Hi Rob! Thanks for clarifying this! It was driving me nuts.
Now my question to you, is it possible to let the user decide that? I mean, having an option somewhere that allows to spawn frames or jobs for work-items?
Because quite frankly having houdini deadline spawn 1000s of jobs is quite terrible if you ask me.
Especially in a shot context, imagine a shot having several render layers, lots of frames, this will become a nightmare really quick.

Is there a workaround for now, maybe using the 20.0 deadline scheduler plugin?

Arvid

Hey I hope I can further add questions to this. I'm using deadlinescheduler for the first time in TOPs and I find it quite hard to grasp the concept. Using 20.5.278 - I want to render my karma stage with several wedge options to control lightrigs/shots.
I was expecting that when cooking the output node, that each work-item will be submitted under a single job.

This is an extract from the deadlineschedule docs.

With this scheduling type, the node also schedules one main job with a task for each work item generated

In my case, it creates a new deadline job housing a single frame.

Either something is broken, or I'm missing a setting to have a single job, with the work items as frames.



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Any help with this would be highly appreciate! I'm also on Houdini-and-Chill / Houdini Academy discord servers - arvidurs.