Autodesk® Backburner™ can be used with Autodesk products such as, Autodesk® Maya®, Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Flame®, Flare®, Flame Assist® or Lustre® to manage your render jobs and render nodes while network rendering. Screenshots and Videos. Customer Reviews. You need to be an Autodesk Subscription customer. Download of CAD utilities. New Map coords converter. CAD/BIM block library with more than 40.000 blocks. Autodesk 2020 products (builds). Download: Backburner 2019 (3ds Max, Maya network rendering, subs.): + show. Tricks, help, how-tos and FAQ for AutoCAD, LT, Inventor, Revit, Map, Civil 3D, MapGuide, 3ds max and other Autodesk.
3ds Max 2019 Update 1 introduced an unfortunate bug; if you tried to run a network render, or a command line rendering job, and your scene contained OSL shaders, it would not work.And sadly, the bug came to our attention just a tiny bit too late to make it into Update 2 (please report these things immediately. Waiting to tell us, or assume we magically know through mind reading, are bad ideas).But it's fixed in Update 3.The bug enough was of course trivial, our new code to convert OSL to HLSL (see previous post for details) made some assumptions about the viewport graphics subsystem being up and running. Which it isn't in command line rendering. So the compilation step of an OSL shader was trying to hand it off to the viewport code, and the viewport code was asleep, taking the day off, and a NULL pointer crash ensued.I'm terribly sorry for any problems this must have caused, but this is now fixed in 2019 Update 3But I have to stress the importance of reporting bugs. Some people have this tendency to just assume a bug is known. Many times this scenario has happened. Me: 'Woohoo, we released version X'.
User: 'Oh cool, did you fix that bug Q?' . Me: 'The what now?' . User: 'That Q bug, everybody knows, you do A with the B and then Q!' . Me: 'I literally never heard of this until now'.
User: 'Come on, everybody knows about this bug'.
Ok, there seems to be a problem if backburner is installed in folders containing spaces.make a bat file with the editor containing this and save it as bbexecute.bat on c:@echo offcall 'E:ProgrammeAutodeskBackburnercmdjob.exe'change the path to your installation path of backburner and put the file on c:you have to make such a bat-file on every client.change then the value of the system variable 'backburner' so it points to 'c:bbbackburner.bat'a hint: turn on 'automatic search' on the servers. Save the tasklist somewhere where the manager has access to. Ok, there seems to be a problem if backburner is installed in folders containing spaces.make a bat file with the editor containing this and save it as bbexecute.bat on c:@echo offcall 'E:ProgrammeAutodeskBackburnercmdjob.exe'change the path to your installation path of backburner and put the file on c:you have to make such a bat-file on every client.change then the value of the system variable 'backburner' so it points to 'c:bbbackburner.bat'a hint: turn on 'automatic search' on the servers. Save the tasklist somewhere where the manager has access to. 1-done2-done HKEYLOCALMACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironment - backburner value iz c:Program FilesAutodeskBackburnercmdjob.exe3-done4-done5-done6- need to change script?7-done8- tacklist saved on c:9- generated backburner.bat on c: with code%backburner% -jobname:XSIScene -jobNameAdjust -taskList:C:Scenetasklist.txt -taskname:1 -priority:50 c:XSIBatch.bat -r -scene C:SoftimageSoftimage7.5DataXSISAMPLESScenesScene.scn -startframe%%tp1 -endframe%%tp2 -pass allbut not change in manager and server and not task in monitorplease help! 1-done2-done HKEYLOCALMACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSession ManagerEnvironment - backburner value iz c:Program FilesAutodeskBackburnercmdjob.exe3-done4-done5-done6- need to change script?7-done8- tacklist saved on c:9- generated backburner.bat on c: with code%backburner% -jobname:XSIScene -jobNameAdjust -taskList:C:Scenetasklist.txt -taskname:1 -priority:50 c:XSIBatch.bat -r -scene C:SoftimageSoftimage7.5DataXSISAMPLESScenesScene.scn -startframe%%tp1 -endframe%%tp2 -pass allbut not change in manager and server and not task in monitorplease help! Sorry, i forgot the instructionsinstructions:1.
Copy the “xsibatch.bat” form your application/bin to c: on every client you want to use2. Make a system variable called “backburner” on every client you want to use, the value of the variable should point to “cmdjob.exe” (installation path of buckburner)3. Restart computer4. Install the addon5. The plugin can be found in xsi under render-menue “submittobackburner”6. Feel free to modify: pluginmanager-installpath to backburner-plugins-submittobackburnerPlugin-right click edit7.
Start a backburner manager, a backburner monitor, on every client backburner server8. When you press the “submit'-button, the plugin will generate a tasklist(txt file) for the backburner. Just save it in a location of your choice (except on the desktop, buckburner seems not to have permissions for the desktop)9. Submit renderjobs. Sorry, i forgot the instructionsinstructions:1. Copy the “xsibatch.bat” form your application/bin to c: on every client you want to use2. Make a system variable called “backburner” on every client you want to use, the value of the variable should point to “cmdjob.exe” (installation path of buckburner)3.
Restart computer4. Install the addon5. The plugin can be found in xsi under render-menue “submittobackburner”6. Feel free to modify: pluginmanager-installpath to backburner-plugins-submittobackburnerPlugin-right click edit7.
Start a backburner manager, a backburner monitor, on every client backburner server8. When you press the “submit'-button, the plugin will generate a tasklist(txt file) for the backburner. Just save it in a location of your choice (except on the desktop, buckburner seems not to have permissions for the desktop)9. Submit renderjobs.