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The number of threads to use for preview or IPR renders.  A A value of 0 indicates that all processors will be used.  Negative Negative values indicate all processors minus the specified number will be used.  The The default of -2 allows the user interface to remain responsive during continuous rendering.

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The display to use for IPR renders.  Choose Choose "It" or Render View.

Output AOVs

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Chose between LocalQueue and Tractor.    There There is a separate section below for Tractor queuing settings.  

Spool To

Choose LocalQueue or Tractor

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How many frames in a chunk/at a time in sequence on a remote server. The default is 5.

Checkpoint

Use checkpointing in a batch render, choosing the number of minutes or iterations before a checkpoint is written. You can control this option using the same syntax found in the Checkpointing Document under "How to Specify". You may specify anything from individual render increments to seconds, minutes, hours, and days. As well as specify an exit time after a checkpoint time or an exit alone without the checkpointing at a given time. The help text popup over the field provides examples, such as: 5m,1h says create a checkpoint every 5 minutes and exit at 1hour, writing the final result.

Launch Denoiser

If deselected, the denoise operation will not launch, you can run the denoiser tool after the image is written manually. Note the display driver in the render settings must be set for denoising.

Tractor
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Tractor

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This affects how active jobs are assigned to remote servers.  It It doesn't affect position in the dispatcher queue.

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Switch between preset configurations. The JSON pref called DefaultEnvKey specifies DefaultEnvKey specifies the default value seen here. Multiple keys can be specified and should be space separated.

These environment keys are recognized by LocalQueue and Tractor:

  • rfm-*  (eg. rfm-22.0)
  • maya-*  (eg. maya-2017)
  • rmantree=*  (eg. rmantree=$RMANTREE)
  • rfmtree=*  (eg. rfmtree=$RFMTREE)

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Example: /usr/sbin/Mail -s 'Job done: %j' %u < %f   (%j = job title, %t = task title, %u = user, %f = temporary status file) 

When Error

A command that should be executed if the job had an error

Example: /usr/sbin/Mail -s 'Job error: %j' %u < %f   (%j = job title, %t = task title, %u = user, %f = temporary status file) 

When Always

A command that should be executed regardless of job error status

Example: /usr/sbin/Mail -s 'Job error: %j' %u < %f   (%j = job title, %t = task title, %u = user, %f = temporary status file) 

Texture Manager
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User Interface
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Image Removed

Image Added

External Editors

Text Editor

Set the default editor for opening ASCII RIB files.

Node Editor

Enable Solo

Allows soloing selected nodes in the Node Editor as you would in the Hypershade by selecting  the solo button.

Channel Box

Attributes in Channel box

Toggle whether or not the channel box displays RenderMan controls.

Script Editor Widget

Font Size

Change the size of displayed fonts.

Font (Typeface)

Change the font used in the editor.

Tab Width

When pressing Tab, move this many spaces in the editor.

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Real Time

Default Lights Shading

Default mode for light creation, wireframe or shaded.

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Texture File Extensions

The extensions used to identify the displayed texure texture files. We default to RenderMan compliant types.

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The maximum resolution of displayed textures in the Viewport. Higher resolutions will impact performance, especially if many are to be displayed. This does not affect IPR rendering to the Viewport.

External Editors

Text Editor

Set the default editor for opening ASCII RIB files.

Script Editor Widget

Font Size

Change the size of displayed fonts.

Font (Typeface)

Change the font used in the editor.

Tab Width

When pressing Tab, move this many spaces in the editor.

RenderMan Viewport

Viewport Controls

Viewport Controls

Show the controls for rendering to VIewport 2.0 in the icon bar of the panel.

Playblast

Playblast Viewer Command

Select an executable and use # to denote frame numbers and padding to pass along.

Show Command Output

Print the command into the script editor.

RenderMan

Viewport Controls

Display the RenderMan control icons in the viewport panel.

Crop Window Color

Select your preferred color for drawing a crop window.

Max FPS

Limit the frame rate to avoid some issues with lag or phantom mouse.

Progress Bar in Viewport

A small bar will show frame progress at the bottom of the viewport and be disabled here.

Viewport Info String

You can display useful information in the viewport, you can choose this based on selections here using the tokens provided from the Workspace Render Tab. The default is the maximum amount based on space to fit the outputShow the controls for rendering to VIewport 2.0 in the icon bar of the panel.

Preset Browser
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Configuration File

Current File

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Manually: User must select to save and increment the scene. 

On Preview Render: Scene is automatically incremented each time it is preview rendered (not interactive renders)

On Batch Render:  Scene Scene is automatically incremented each time it is batch rendered

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Manually: User must select to save a new take take

On Preview Render: Scene take is incremented on a preview render (not interactive renders)

On Batch Render:  Scene Scene take is incremented on a batch render

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The padding used to increment a scene, the default is 3 meaning versions will have three digits, example: 001 001

Take Padding

The padding used to increment the takes of a scene, the default is 2 meaning takes will have two digits, example: 01 

 

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