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Hi Simon,
1) Those commands are used to catch the real process executable in order to correctly assign a process priority (idle/realtime/andsoon). The detection logic may be DIRECTPROC, CHILDPROC and CHILDPROC2. Direct proc means that what you spawn from the command line section is the final rendering process, no further options to configure. CHILDPROC means that what you spawn, will spawn an additional process, muster will need to catch the process in the process list, so you’ve to configure the DETECTION_LOGIC_PROC with the name of the process as reported by the task Manager and/or the ps utility. CHILDPROC2 goes further (as it happens on some Maya version), you spawn a process that spawn another process that spawn another process( hehe
), it that case you’ll need to configure the DETECTION_LOGIC_PROC and DETECTION_LOGIC_PROC2 according.2) this enables the path builder as you already understood. It’s used to guess the project path from the choosen file, the Maya template shows a good example on how to use that.
3) MAP is used to map custom submission values to internal ones, in example, Muster always expect a start_frame internal variable. You may set your own field and call it MYFIELD to hold the starting frame, but you’ll need to tell muster that MYFIELD is the starting frame, you can do that using MAP start_frame MYFIELD
4) ACTIVABLE: Let you devine a variable that accepts user activation in the submission panel. In example, if you want to let the user choose to save the files in a different location, you can use an ACTIVABLE field and concatenate the required command line chunk using a macro like %ISACTIVE(MYFIELD -renderdest %ATTR(MYFIELD)) , MANDATORY is used for validation, Muster will check if the field is empty and won’t let you send a job if it is. SUBST/NOSUBST applies to cross platform subtitution engine, if the variable holds a path that may require path substitution, you can specify it with SUBST , the filter lists just apply to the file picker dialog (if supported on the platform).
Cheers,
