

A trained systems administrator should ensure that the execution permissions are properly set and managed. WARNING Special security consideration should be given to the cmdjob utility, as it can execute commands remotely on all the render nodes on the network. If you run cmdjob without parameters it shows you all the parameters that you can use - but it's easier to go to Backburner2011_user_guide and check Advanced Options -> Submitting Jobs from a Command Line or Script (page 70-72).įirst i'll repeat the warning as you really don't want someone to accidentally remove/rename files and folders on all the render farm machines. So now i finally get to the point where i submit this to Backburner and i'll use the cmdjob command for that. It does and there is another box in the scene! It's time to uncomment the last line and try one more time to verify that 3ds Max actually closes.

Seems ok: 3ds Max starts and another box is added. Ok, let's run the same thing from the command line (no need to use double backslashes there): When i evaluate it from within 3ds Max it works and another box gets added at the origin in my scene. The last line is commented out using "-" so i can test this without having to restart 3ds Max all the time. I also create a couple of subfolders (one for scripts, one for scene files), copy across the files to their respective folders and update the script to use the right path (note that you need to use double backslashes in MAXScript): In this second post i'm testing the script and submitting it to Backburner using cmdjob.įirst of all i create a folder on the machine i'm using as the file server, share that and grant permissions (as i want to be able to write back to that folder).
