I think you should be able to comment out most of what you don't want to appear. Quite a lot of the options work fine if nothing has been filled in since they should have defaults set with the Monitor, so commenting them out shouldn't make a difference.
Anything else could be fixed in the def SubmitButtonPressed args (I assume). -Paul On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Paul! > > The installation that I have actually works, but what I want to do is to > remove all the options for the users :) I tend to have quite a strict > pipeline so that the users can't decide themselfs what to do more than > submitting to the farm. I'm quite new to deadline, used it less than a day > now. > > So it works out of the box, but my users are given way to much freedom and > choices... :) > > The user should basically have the options as follows > > > - chose passes > - set render range > - set priority > > > Any other option will not be allowed, that is handled by the other tools. > So I would like to write my own submit script, just as I've done for Rush. > Going to take a closer peek at the other submit scripts. > > best regards > stefan > > > > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Paul Griswold < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I've been using it since the Frantic Film days. I'm not sure I >> understand what problems you're having. >> >> Deadline is pretty much self contained. Get the repository >> installed & >> running, get the clients installed on all the machines. Then load >> Deadline Monitor, go into Super User mode and configure the paths to >> Softimage & SoftimageBatch. Finally copy the file >> [Repository]/ClientSetup/XSI/SubmitXSIToDeadline.py to the folder [XSI >> Install Directory]/Application/Plugins >> and then you'll have "Submit to Deadline" in your Render button. >> >> As long as the scenes & assets are all on UNC paths, it should work >> without any other tweaking. >> >> You can then go into the Monitor and set up pools, groups, user groups, >> etc., if you need to. >> >> If you go to the Thinkbox forums you can get access to Deadline 6 beta, >> which is a pretty major change from the current Deadline. >> >> -Paul >> >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi All! >>> At my current place they have Deadline installed on a few machines. So I >>> thought I should give that a shot, but I just can't get my head around it. >>> Even though all the submit scripts are python, I feel like I'm running >>> around in circles when I read them. And the "automatic script installation" >>> failed, so I had to find the scripts and add a new sys path. >>> >>> Anyhow, before I go to the bosses and complain. Anyone with some >>> Deadline ninja skills around? And since I tend to tweak a write a lot of my >>> own stuff to keep the pipeline tidy, is deadline friendly enough to do that? >>> >>> best regards >>> stefan >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *Stefan Andersson | Digital Janitor* >>> blog <http://sanders3d.wordpress.com> | >>> showreel<http://vimeo.com/sanders3d>| >>> twitter <http://twitter.com/sanders3d> | >>> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanders3d>| cell: >>> +46-73-6268850 | skype:sanders3d >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > *Stefan Andersson | Digital Janitor* > blog <http://sanders3d.wordpress.com> | showreel<http://vimeo.com/sanders3d>| > twitter <http://twitter.com/sanders3d> | > LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanders3d>| cell: > +46-73-6268850 | skype:sanders3d > > >
