Save and Restore master from disk.
When the "clear on exit" option is off, write a data file (blender_master.data) in the master's path on exit and reads it back on load.
Note: Jobs and Slaves lists are restored, but not balancer settings (problem with the pickle module).
path -> filepath (for rna and operators, as agreed on with elubie)
path -> data_path (for windowmanager context functions, this was alredy used in many places)
Repath functionality: Edit paths in blend file on slaves to match the transfered files.
Tested with textures and point caches. Fluid should work. Point Caches with the External option might not.
This should fix previous problems when using absolute paths in blend files.
- multires cache files and image .tex cache support in dependency list
- Compare md5 of files before using a local copy (not one transfered by netrender). Could be changed to a simpler CRC if speed is an issue. The goal is not to have a strong crypto signature but just to detect outdated local files.
- Reduce slave timeout to 5 minutes (down from 30). Slaves should report at most every 30s, there's no reason for a value to be that high.
- Reorder the presentation tables on the main web page (job list is more important)
- Collapse dependency list by default on job page (only show main file and headers for other files, point cache and fluid cache)
- Slave option (default: True) to also output render log to the console (as well as the usual copy to the master)
* Client connection is made from panel poll functions even if
netrender is disabled
* Network render slave should print when it has connected to server,
now it says "node initiation", I initially thought this meant it was
not connected yet.
* Web interface should auto-refresh, I got confused if job and slaves
were actually found or not.
Also force post process off.
This is a partial fix for Bug [#21410], there is still the problem that loading back multilayer exr as render results doesn't load the composited result correctly (bug is assigned to Brecht). The results are still ok when downloaded outside of the render engine, so there's a work around for now.
rename image.save() --> image.save_render() because it uses render settings for saving.
added image.save() which is like pressing save in the image view, saving to the images path and removing the dirty flag.
thumbnails on the web interface (resized with imagemagick or compatible if present, fullsize otherwise)
Clicking on the "show" link shows the thumbnail associated with one frame. Clicking on a second one shows all frames in the range. Clicking on more frames extends the range. Clicking on a thumbnail (or on the show link of a visible thumbnail) hides all thumbnails.
jpeg versions of the render results are downloadable from the web interface.
Notes:
1) They are generated (and written to disk) on demand on the master in the same Blender instance, so this will increase memory usage (until there's a way to free and image buffer from memory or it's run in a separate process).
2) They are darker then the real results, since multilayer exr contain the result before gamma correction (for the linear workflow) and that's not applied when loading them as an image.
3) They are NOT thumbnails, they are the same size as the results (albeit at 90% quality jpeg compression)
Slave and Master options to delete files when closed (default True for slave, False for Master)
Web interface option to remove files (on master) when deleting a job (or all jobs)
Web interface button to pause a job
- Add "Get Result" button after a job has been sent (this calls Animate and fetches the results back as render result buffers)
- Rendering (animate or single frame) without an active job was broken. Note that this launches a new job for each frame (it's impossible in a render engine to know if an animation is being rendered or a single frame only).
- Patch by Olivier Amrein (prettying the web interface with css, fixing some notification bugs)
- More error checks on the slave (better behavior when job is canceled)
- Client: when using "Animate on Network" and canceling render midway, also cancel job. Use Send Job and Animate if you want a real background job.
