When using Blender Cloud Add-on 1.12 or older, Flamenco Server will
automatically convert the Manager settings to version 1. As a result,
upgrading is recommended but not required to keep working with a newer
Flamenco Server.
The frame chunk size has a slightly different meaning when rendering
progressively (Flamenco Server can choose to chunk more frames together
when rendering a low number of samples).
Any 'Create Video' Flamenco task that's part of the job will pad the video
with black pixels to make the dimensions even, and this warning notifies
the artist about this.
This button can be enabled in the add-on preferences and and then be
available on the Flamenco Render panel. Pressing the button will
silently close Blender after the job has been submitted to Flamenco (for
example to click, walk away, and free up memory for when the same
machine is part of the render farm).
Rendering ranges of sample chunks only works reliably for us after
Blender commit 7744203b7fde35a074faf232dda3595b78c5f14c (Tue Jan 29
18:08:12 2019 +0100).
Flamenco Server changed from expecting a fixed number of sample chunks to
a compile-time determined number of nonuniform chunks. The artist can now
influence the size of each render task by setting a maximum number of
samples per render task.
This includes using `''` instead of `None` in some cases where an empty
string conveys 'nothing' equally well as `None`; in such cases keeping the
type the same rather than switching to another type is preferred.
Requires that the file is configured for rendering to Matroska video
files.
Audio is only extracted when there is an audio codec configured. This is
a bit arbitrary, but it's at least a way to tell whether the artist is
considering that there is audio of any relevance in the current blend
file.
This introduces version 2 of that file.
Version 1:
- Only the job doc was saved, with 'missing_files' added inside it.
Version 2:
- '_meta' key was added to indicate version.
- 'job' is saved in a 'job' key, 'misssing_files' still top-level key.
- 'exclusion_filter', 'project_settings', and
'flamenco_manager_settings' keys were added.
These are all needed to use FFmpeg on the worker to render a video from
rendered image sequences.
- fps: float, the scene FPS
- images_or_video: either 'images' or 'video', depending on what's being
output by Blender. We don't support using FFmpeg to join chunked videos
yet.
- output_file_extension: string like '.png' or '.exr', only set when
outputting images (since doing this for video requires a lookup table and
isn't even being used at the moment).
The problem was that there was too much storing done in an on-change
handler, causing things to be overwritten. By splitting up some functionality
and properly marking the "we're now loading" bits of code, its' solved.
Previously it would be saved in the same directory as the blend file, which
may be deeply nested in a directory structure. Now it's saved at the top
of the BAT pack.
