Downloading results for jobs from blender now uses the current output settings, it doesn't just download the multilayer exr as it used to.
Render output panel now visible under the jobs panel in client mode.
Bugfix for job cancellation (reported by Carsten in email)
Ended up recoding part of the communication pipe (use json more consistently)
Fix bpy data modifications where it shouldn't happen (as a bonus, thumbnailing is now done out of process)
[#24601] Net rendering master node fails to send/retrieve files to/from slaves
Both Reported by Dan McGrath
The second might not actually be fixed with this, but now there is better error checking and reporting.
Misc: add poll method in Panel base class, to better support mixins with different inheritance order.
New Feature:
VCS job type
Render a file (with dependencies) from a version control system (currently only supports subversion, but system is already generic).
On client, working path, server path and current revision can be guessed from data on disk or entered manually.
On slave, a working copy is created (if needed) where specified by the job and updated to the proper revision.
On master web page, job types now appear in the job lists. The job page shows the list of dependencies for "normal" jobs or versioning information for VCS jobs.
Limitations: Need to have command line tools "svn" and "svnversion". Working copy path must be the same on client and slaves (the client gets the job path relative to the working copy). When guessing, working copy path is set to the folder where the current file is (this can be changed manually after). On the slave, it will update the working copy AS SPECIFIED to the revision, so if that path is too deep, some dependencies will not be updated properly. Doesn't support mixed revisions (and will not give any warnings for that), it will always use the first revision specified by "svnversion"
Bugfix:
Thumbnail generation doesn't chew down memory anymore and always gives correct result (thumbnail on master especially could mess up between jobs with the name result filename)
slave use output log option correctly
use os.path.join more consistently (reported by Dalai Felinto)
unify frame range (was 4 digits on master, 6 elsewhere, now 6 everywhere).
Fix occasional broken pipe between master and slave (didn't affect result, just polluted log).
- Temporary fix for linked libs repathing (didn't work correctly when using relative links).
- autorefresh only for main page (on job page, it's really annoying because it keeps reseting results preview, so until that's fixed, off it is).
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)
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)
Display job status in web interface
Better use of Reports api for errors and success notifications
Don't show some Client options if server address is default (hasn't been scanned or entered manually yet)
use a real object for files instead of a tuple
unique urls for files, logs and render results (just missing the proper mime type for exr files)
fix bug with slaves not getting the correct machine name
Support for fluid files and better support for point cache (including external cache for particles)
This also fixes a couple of bugs with frame based dependencies and with file transfer.
NOTE: With external point cache and fluids, the path needs to be relative or relative to the file (starting with //) if the files are not on a shared drive. It should eventually warn if that is not the case, but doesn't right now, so be careful.
