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This page provides information on managing render jobs in V-Ray Chaos Cloud.

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Overview

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With Chaos Cloud rendering Managing render jobs in V-Ray Cloud is done in one of two ways - using its web-based interface, or alternatively, via command-line interface. Within V-Ray Cloud, you are able to submit, queue, monitor, and organize your render jobs across projects.

V-Ray Cloud Interface

You can get into the V-Ray Cloud web interface by opening a web browser window and typing the following address: https://vray.cloud/. You will then be prompted to log in with your ChaosGroup account and password.

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To manage render jobs in Chaos Cloud you can use its web-based interface or a command line interface. This page explains how to manage render jobs in the web-based interface of Chaos Cloud rendering.

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Your Credits Balance is now displayed on each Chaos Cloud rendering portal page. It is visible in the top right corner next to the login information.

Managing Jobs Through the Web Interface

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In the web interface of Chaos Cloud log in with your Chaos Group account and password.

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The Home page in Chaos Cloud contains two tabs - one for your Recent Jobs and one for your Active ones.

Active Jobs are all the incomplete ones - paused, rendering or queued.

If you land on the Home page for the first time, you will see help text on how to get started.

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Projects

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The Projects tab hosts all render jobs submitted to

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Chaos Cloud rendering. It allows organizing jobs in multiple projects, and it is also where you can download the output of your render, resubmit a render, or delete a render from

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Every render job needs to be allocated to a project.

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To create a new empty project, press

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asking you to enter a name for your project appears.

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If Set as default

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is enabled, the newly created project

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becomes the default one, meaning that all subsequent render job submissions

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are automatically allocated to that project unless changed manually before submission.

If there is no project set as default, Chaos Cloud rendering will suggest the most recently used one.

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To set a new default project,

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press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Set as default.

To delete a project,

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press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Delete.

To rename a project,

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press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Rename.

To download all completed jobs from a project, select the Download option. Downloading starts using the Chaos Cloud app.

To manually save to Google Drive or OneDrive all output images of the jobs from one project, press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Save to Google Drive/Save to OneDrive. Note that you have to give Chaos Cloud rendering access to your Google Drive/OneDrive account in advance from Options > Google Drive/Microsoft OneDrive Integration. If you prefer to save the output images automatically to Google Drive or OneDrive, you can enable the automatic save option. See the Save and Download Options page for more information.

The Credits Report option pulls a credits report only for the selected object. For more information on credits report, see the Credit Usage Report page.

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Clicking on a project shows

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its contained render items. Here you can monitor, pause, cancel

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, move, delete, download a render job

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be automatically redirected to the Queue section of V-Ray Cloud. This is where you can monitor and manage pending and on-going jobs.

By default, the web address http://localhost:24267 opens the V-Ray Swarm Network view.

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The top of the page displays the current access Swarm menu, the machine name, and the status of V-Ray Standalone.

In the top right corner is a control switch for V-Ray Standalone. V-Ray rendering is Enabled by default, meaning that if there is V-Ray Standalone build already installed on the machine V-Ray will be ready for rendering. To make any configuration changes, the status should first be set to Disabled.

To access V-Ray Swarm's Menu, click on the button with the three horizontal lines (sometimes referred to as a hamburger) at the top left corner.

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Network

Network is the default page that opens when V-Ray Swarm is accessed at http://[IP_ADDRESS]:24267. It can also be selected from the V-Ray Swarm Menu.

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This page shows all the available Swarm machines visible on the local network:

Checkbox – Enables configuration options in the current window. Configuration options for selected machines appear in the right pane.

HOSTNAME – The machine's hostname.

STATUS – The current state of V-Ray Standalone. The status can be:

ENABLED – The default status of V-Ray Standalone, indicating it's ready and waiting for jobs. Note that if there is no V-Ray Standalone installed on the machine, the same status will be displayed. When a render job is started with this machine, V-Ray Swarm will upload V-Ray Standalone and start it automatically.
DISABLED – V-Ray Standalone is stopped. This machine can not be used for rendering. The DISABLED status can be manually set from the switch at the top right corner of the webpage for the machine that you are connected to.
ASSIGNED – When the machine is starting a job or a V-Ray Standalone build is currently uploading.
RENDERING (IP_ADDRESS) – The machine starts to render. The (IP_ADDRESS) will be the IP address of the machine (workstation) that starts the render job.
UNSTABLE – There is some V-Ray Standalone error during the rendering ( the most common issue is a license problem).

IP ADDRESS – The location/address of the machine.

TAGS – The tags set for the machine.

V-RAY VERSION – The V-Ray Standalone version and build number currently started on the machine.

PLATFORM – The operating system of the machine.

CPU(s) – Displays all CPUs of the machine.

GPU(s) – Displays all GPUs of the machine.

CPU – The percentage of the CPU being used in real time.

MEMORY – The percentage of memory (RAM) being used in real time.

By default, all columns are visible. You can control which columns appear by clicking the COLUMNS button at the upper left corner of the interface. All columns can be hidden except HOSTNAME and STATUS.

Use the Filter to display render nodes by a keyword included in Hostname, Status, IP address, Tags, V-Ray Version or Platform, accessed from the drop-down menu next to the Filter pane.

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The Network page includes options for configuring and controlling the V-Ray Swarm node machines. When a single machine is selected using the checkbox in the leftmost column, action buttons appear in the right pane:

Enable – Starts V-Ray Standalone on the selected node.

Disable – Stops V-Ray Standalone on the selected node.

Copy Configuration – Copies the configuration to the selected machine from the one that is currently opened in the web browser. For example, if http://localhost:24267 is opened in the web browser, its configuration will be copied to the selected machine.

Node information – Contains the Status, V-Ray version, Platform, and Tags of the machine.

URL – Opens the V-Ray Swarm web interface of the selected machine.

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By selecting multiple machines using the SHIFT and/or CTRL keys from the right pane, you may Enable, Disable or Copy Configuration for multiple machines with one click. All the changes that will be applied will be shown for review.

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Before using Copy Configuration, the node should be Disabled first. The configuration will be copied from the machine that is currently opened in the web browser.

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After the configuration is successfully carried over to the machines, re-enable them to bring them back online.

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To pause an ongoing render, go to the Settings button (Image Added) and select Pause.

To cancel an ongoing render altogether, go to the Settings button (Image Added) and select Stop.

To move a job to another project, go to the Settings button (Image Added) and select Move. Then, you can either search for a destination project (by entering the project title or browsing in the project list in a modal window), or you can create a new project and select it from the modal window.

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The project list in the modal window can be sorted by name.

To delete a completed render, press the Delete option.

To download a completed render job, press the Download.

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To manually save the output images of a job to your Google Drive or OneDrive, press the Settings button (

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You can also manually save a group of render job output images. To do so, select the jobs by clicking on them, and then press Save to Google Drive/Save to OneDrive. Another way to select the jobs is to select the first and last render job while holding Shift.

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Clicking on a render job within a project opens the Job Details page. The page displays the finished render if it's finished, information about it, as well as additional controls for downloading, resubmitting, or reporting a job.

To download the render job, press the Download button. For more details on the download options, check the Save and Download Options page.

To delete the render job, press the Settings button (Image Added) and select Delete.

To clone the render job, press the Clone button. For more information, see the Clone Option page.

To report the render job, if something went wrong, press the Settings button (Image Added) and select Report.

To view the render log, press the Settings button ( Image Added) and select View log details.

To rename the render job, press the Settings button ( Image Added) and select Rename.

To move a job to another project, press the Settings button ( Image Added) and select Move. Then, you can either search for a destination project (by entering the project title or browsing in the project list in a modal window), or you can create a new project and select it from the modal window.

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The project list in the modal window can be sorted by name.

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The progress of ongoing render jobs can be observed in real-time from the Job Details page.

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Cloning a render job using the Clone button allows you to set new final render settings.

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Please, note that when pausing a job, the credits consumption does not stop immediately. This means that when manually pausing a job, or when Chaos Cloud rendering automatically pauses a job because the account's credits have been depleted or the job credit limit is reached, there might be some small additional credits consumption.

If a credit limit is used, the credits spent might be a bit above the limit (most of the time less than 0.1 credits). If the credits are depleted, the credits spent might be a negative number.

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Bulk Operations

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Chaos Cloud rendering offers some bulk operations when selecting more than one job at once - Download, Save to Google Drive, Save to OneDrive and Delete.

You can select renders by clicking on them. Another way is to select the first and last render job while holding Shift.

When downloading the selected items, Chaos Cloud rendering uses the Chaos Client app. Specify a location for the download to start. A separate tab opens in your browser where you can see the download process of each job.

For more information on saving to your drive, refer to the Save and Download Options page.

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How to get a Job ID

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The ID of a render job can be obtained in two ways. Either upon submission, through а command line interface, or from the Chaos Cloud's URL of the web interface when the Job Details page is open, as shown in the example below.

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Credit Limit

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The cost for rendering a job can be limited by using the Job Credit Limit setting in the submission step.

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Job credit limit is available only for still images.

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The button resides in the Submit Job window. You can disable it by setting it to 0, so that the job does not have a limit in credits and continues until it meets some of its other completion criteria. This option is available when cloning a job, too.

Once the credit limit is reached, the job is paused and you get notified via email. In the Job Details panel you get a notification that the Job credit limit is reached. You can increase the credit limit and resume the render.

For old jobs submitted by old client app, the credit limit is displayed in the Portal as N/A.

While the job is pausing when the credit limit is reached, there is still utilization tracking process going on, so the final job credits might exceed the limit with a bit

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