Soft dependancy

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  • 19th May 2014 at 10:16 am #14529

    Hey All,

    Is there a way to set up soft dependancies between jobs in muster 8?

    With soft dependancies I mean that when packet 1 is done for job A
    muster kicks of packet 1 for job B (Of course both jobs need the same frame length and packet size).

    This would be awesome for automating rib/ass sequence generation on the farm.
    Ie kick of the rib generation for 100 frames and then link a render job that start after each
    frame has been exported. No need to wait for the entire job to finish before it starts the render.

    This would also be a nice feature to have when running a simulation
    where you could have a meshing or render job dependant on the simulation job and
    for each simulation frame you would get a rendered image instead of having to wait for
    the entire heavy and slow simulation to finish before seeing anything.

    22nd August 2014 at 1:32 pm #15255

    Hi Alex,

    Python based dependancies check is scheduled for 8.2.0. This means you will be able to run a script to check if a job is suitable to start (And a chunk off-course). With this build-in API, you can simply query the chunk status of another job and act according. Just 3 lines of code…

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