Render frames spread throughout the sequence first

[pechart]

Hi again!

A nice Feature would be to render several Frames of the sequence first. For example if we have a 100 Frame sequence first render Frame 1, 25, 50, 75 and 100. This way we could get a more reliable remaining time.
And we can check some Frames quickly to see, if a render works as expected. You often have the first/last Frames black, so inbetween Frames could really help here.

Thanks!

[Shoran Support]

That feature is already there; you can set the chunk dispatching in the net job to "evenly distributed", which should pretty much do what you want.

[pechart]

Great, Thank you!

[pechart]

Well, actually this isn't quite what I wanted. It should only do some (maybe 5) preview frames/chunks evenly distributed and then jump back to the start and continue from there. Is this possible?

[Shoran Support]

No. You could play with chunk priorities to achieve this "effect".

[pechart]

Hmm, okay. Thanks anyway.

[pechart]

Just another question regarding this. Is it possible to submit jobs from an external application like Maya with the order set to "evenly distributed" by default? Thanks!

[Shoran Support]

Do you mean whether this is possible in general or using the submitter?

[pechart]

With the submitter.

[Shoran Support]

You need to add -nj_dispatchorder 2 to the additional commands when submitting.