User manual APPLE QMASTER 3

[. . . ] Apple Qmaster 3 User Manual K Apple Inc. Copyright © 2007 Apple Inc. Your rights to the software are governed by the accompanying software license agreement. The owner or authorized user of a valid copy of Final Cut Studio software may reproduce this publication for the purpose of learning to use such software. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted for commercial purposes, such as selling copies of this publication or for providing paid for support services. [. . . ] The available settings correspond to commonly used Maya command options. You can also type additional command options in the Options field. See the Maya documentation for more information about all the Maya command settings. 3 Click OK when you have finished creating the full command. 4 To add more jobs to this batch, repeat steps 1 through 3. 5 As needed, set the following options for the batch in the Apple Qmaster window: Â Submit To: Choose a cluster to process this batch. Â Working Directory: If relevant, enter the working directory (from which you want the command to be executed) in the Working Directory column. Â Priority: Choose the priority level from the pop-up menu. The higher the priority, the sooner and faster this batch will be processed relative to other batches. 6 Click Submit to send the batch out for processing. Note: By default, Apple Qmaster ignores Maya plug-in error messages. If you use Maya plug-ins, you can change this by removing or renaming /Library/Application\ Support/Apple\ Qmaster/MayaCommandPlugin. commandPlugin/Contents/Resources/ mayascript. Advanced users can customize MayaScript to suit their environment and workflow. Media Management in Maya Projects Most Maya assets are contained to the project directory. If your project uses external files, you will need to relink them when the project is moved to the shared volume. It may be necessary to retarget your assets once you move your project to the shared volume. This varies depending on the types of files and plug-ins used. If you are handing this project to a cluster administrator, you should save the file in Maya ASCII (. ma) as well. This way, it can be edited to fix path problems without intimate knowledge of using Maya. 17 Mental Ray for Maya Submissions and Other Options: To use Mental Ray for Maya renderer, add -r mr to the options field. You must have a licensed copy of Maya on each node in the cluster to use the Mental Ray renderer. Apple Qmaster does not use Maya Satellite, so in this regard, there is no difference in Maya Complete vs. Maya Unlimited, except for the plug-ins that ship with Unlimited. If the node in question has only one CPU, the number of satellite CPUs does not apply to Apple Qmaster. [. . . ] The default working directory is /Applications/Shake. Use to specify the number of seconds before Apple Qmaster can quit when looking for a cluster. The default value is 0, which puts no limit on the timeout and allows Apple Qmaster to browse the network for as long as it needs to find the cluster. Shows the ID information for the cluster specified with -clustername or -clusterid, or for all clusters if no cluster is specified. [. . . ]