Add a new job setting option `autoevalLockable`. Setting this to `true` in
the job compiler's `JOB_TYPE` settings has the following effect:
- By default, the setting will not be editable in Blender's job submission
interface. Instead, a toggle button with a 'car' icon will be shown.
- When the 'car' button is toggled off, the setting becomes editable again.
In its default, uneditable state, the setting will be auto-evaluated before
submission.
This makes it possible to 'lock in' auto-evaluation. The main use case is
for the frame range of the render job. By default this will be locked to
the scene frame range, but it can still be overridden if a different
range is wanted.
As it was decided that the name "tags" would be better for the clarity
of the feature, all files and code named "cluster" or "worker cluster"
have been removed and replaced with "tag" and "worker tag". This is only
a name change, no other features were touched.
This addresses part of #104204.
Reviewed-on: https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco/pulls/104223
As a note to anyone who already ran a pre-release version of Flamenco
and configured some worker clusters, with the help of an SQLite client
you can migrate the clusters to tags. First build Flamenco Manager and
start it, to create the new database schema. Then run these SQL queries
via an sqlite commandline client:
```sql
insert into worker_tags
(id, created_at, updated_at, uuid, name, description)
select id, created_at, updated_at, uuid, name, description
from worker_clusters;
insert into worker_tag_membership (worker_tag_id, worker_id)
select worker_cluster_id, worker_id from worker_cluster_membership;
```
The 'None' project finder is the old behaviour of the add-on, and it is not
really necessary. If any of the other finders cannot find the directory
they're looking for, they'll return the current blend file's directory
anyway.
The new default is 'blender project'.
The Flamenco add-on can now find the top-level directory of your Blender
project. It can be configured to find any of these directories:
- `.blender_project`
- `.git`
- `.subversion`
- None, which is the default and the old behaviour of just using the
directory of the current blend file as the 'project directory'.
The available worker clusters are stored on the addon preferences, to be
available across restarts of Blender. The prefs were not marked as 'dirty'
though, so Blender never actually saved them. That's now resolved.
In the 'Cluster' drop-down, change the label and tooltip of the 'No
Cluster' option. The functionality is still the same, it causes the job
to be submitted without cluster assigned. The wording now reflect
Flamenco's behaviour better, instead of describing this technical aspect.
Old: "No Cluster", "No cluster assigned, any worker can handle this job"
New: "All", "No specific cluster assigned, any worker can handle this job"
Fix#104183: Error submitting job to flamenco manager.
The bug happened when a user, using filesystem as storage solution,
would try to submit the job to the flamenco manager. The user would be shown
an Error -> Error packing with BAT: 'Packer' object has no attribute 'actual_checkout_path'.
The fix was to account for multiple implementations of the Packer object.
Reviewed-on: https://projects.blender.org/studio/flamenco/pulls/104184
If Shaman is used to submit the job files, store the job's checkout ID
(i.e. the path relative to the checkout root) in the database. This will
make it possible in the future to remove the Shaman checkout along with
the job itself.
Job preparation (that is, constructing the data to be sent to the Flamenco
API) shouldn't fail, but in case it does, it should stop the rest of the
submission process.
Add support for Blender's `use_all_linked_data_direct` experimental
option. This is a workaround for an issue with BAT, for which a quick
solution is required by the Blender Studio (production crunch).
Flamenco writes the `.flamenco.blend` file with
`preferences.experimental.use_all_linked_data_direct` set to `True`, so
that BAT has an easier time finding linked assets.
If file has never been saved, Flamenco cannot create a temp copy to
submit. This caused an exception, which is now avoided by showing a
clear error message instead.
Maniphest Tasks: T102192
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16358
Fix a BAT error that arises when submitting a job from a Windows
workstation to a Shaman flamenco system. BAT expects an absolute path,
but on Windows systems, absolute paths begin with a drive letter.
This patch adds an arbitrary drive letter, and later removes it once the
relative paths have been computed.
Reviewed by: sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D16084
BAT-packing is a multi-threaded operation, so messages about its progress
are queued up in a thread-safe manner. The modal operator was only handling
4 messages per second, causing major slowdowns when there are lots of
small files to be processed. This is now done much faster, and thus the
UI shouldn't lag behind of the actual submissions progress.
Implement the `getSharedStorage` operation in the Manager, and use it in
the add-on to get the shared storage location in a way that makes sense
for the platform of the user.
Manifest task: T100196
