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jobs that must finish before the current job can
star t.
Options group
Enabled Notifications—Lets the s oftware send
rendering-related messages via emai l. When this
is on, its Define button becomes available. For
information, see the Notifications dialog (page
3–196) topic.
Define—Opens the Notifications dialog, which lets
you set notifications parameters.
Split Scan Lines—Lets you subdivide the rendering
ofeachframeamongtherenderingservers.This
is useful when rendering a single, extremely
high-resolution image intended for printing. For
information, see the Strips Setup dialog (page
3–197) topic.
When Split Scan Lines is on, its Define button
becomes available.
Note: This feature does not support Render
Elements. Also, it’s unavailable when rendering
to textures with projection mapping enabled and
Sub-Object Levels on.
Define—Opens the Strips Setup dia log, which lets
you set parameters for the Split Scan Lines option.
Ignore S cene Pat h—When off, the server attempts
to copy the scene file from the manager to the
server. If the manager is running on Windows
2000 Profession a l, only 10 servers will copy the
file from the manager ; any machines over the
limit 10 w ill use TCP/IP to retrieve the file. When
turned on, the se rvers get the file via TCP/IP only.
Default=off.
R end er ed Fra me Wi nd ow—During rendering,
displays the rendered frame window on a ll
servers running serverapp.exe (not serversvc.exe).
Default=on.
Include Ma ps—Archives the scene, with all of
its maps, any inserted Xrefs and their maps,
into a proprietary-format compressed file. The
compressed file is sent to e ach Server, w here it is
uncompressed into a temporary directory named
serverjob in the \network subdirectory of the
program and rendered. Default=off.
Use this feature if you have access only to Servers
that exist over the Internet or if you have a
slow network setup. It is not meant for hea vy
production use. However, if you don’t use it, you
must first ensure that all network servers have
access to all map and Xref paths referred to in the
scene.
Initially Suspended—Adds the named job to the
queueinaninactivestate.Thejobisnotstarted
until you activate it manually from the B
ackburner
Monitor
Server Usage Group
You choose between using all available servers, all
servers in a g roup, or selected servers. G
rouping
Render Nodes in Server Groups explains how to
set up server groups. In a 3ds Max setup it can be
useful to set up servers in groups. For example,
during busy times you can assign high priority
jobs to a group of high performance servers.
Use Sel ected—Uses only the servers that you have
highlighted in the Server list.
Use Gr ou p—Uses all of the servers in a group.
Tip: Note that the servers are assigned to a g roup in
the A utodesk Backburner monitor.
Group drop-down list—Choose the g roup of servers
thatyouwanttouseforyourrender.
Use A ll S erv er s —Uses all Servers in the active
Server group for rendering the job. Available only
after you submit a multi-frame rendering job.
Path File G ro up
Use Alternate Path File—Allows you to specify
an alternate path file in the MXP format that