These install instructions show how to
set up submit-shake.pl.
This should have already been setup for you by the person
who installed the rush software.
In place of the following example, use an absolute path
that can be accessed by your entire network:
Use an absolute UNC path instead of drive letters when
invoking the script, eg:
The interface should pop up. If it doesn't, verify the
first line in the script's path points to the correct
location of your perl binary.
Click the help button (buttons with '?') for any field you
want to know more about.
When the GUI pops up, note there are various 'Advanced Options'
available if you scroll the window down.
This should be an absolute path to your shake file.
This path must be able to resolve on all the machines you'll
be rendering on.
Under Windows, you should use UNC absolute pathnames, such as
//server/jobs/LOGO/sc4a/shake/sc4a.shk
This is the range of frames you want to render; normally
two values separated by a dash, eg. '1-100'.
You can also specify individual frames, multiple ranges,
or cobinations of both, eg. '1 10 20-30 400-900', which
would render frames 1, 10, 20 through 30, and 400 through 900.
In our case, lets use any 5 available cpus at the lowest priority:
Advanced Options are optional. To see them, use the scroll bar
to scroll down to check their settings.
Click the help button (buttons with '?') for any field you
want to know more about.
This should submit your job, and a window indicating the jobid
should pop up, followed by an irush interface with the jobid
already set to the new job.
The next time you bring up the submit form, it will have all
the values set from the last execution. Note that you can
save and load you
data entries for easy retrieval.
For more info on the irush interface, see the irush tutorial.
Hit 'Frames' in irush to watch the progress of your job.
When you're finished with the job, hit 'Dump' in irush.
Installing submit-shake
Before using the shake submit script, the script must be copied
to a network drive so that all the machines can access it, both
so users can invoke it as a GUI, and the render machines can run
it.
Using submit-shake
UNIX: cp /usr/local/rush/examples/submit-shake.pl /server/jobs/rush
WINDOWS: copy c:\rush\examples\submit-shake.pl \\server\jobs\rush
//server/jobs/rush/submit-shake.pl
A common way to do this is to make a desktop shortcut
that invokes the absolute UNC path to the script.
+any=5@1
If some frames are running, or got done already, click on
some, and hit 'Logs' to see the output of the perl commands
you entered.
This shows the 'advanced options' of the shake submit form.
Just scroll down or resize the submit window to access them.