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Clicking on the  button will open the Submit to Chaos Cloud window.

Submit to Chaos Cloud

The Submit to Chaos Cloud window allows you to choose how to submit your scene to Chaos Cloud.

Clicking on Export and Submit will export the scene and submit it to the cloud for rendering. You will be prompted to finalize some of the settings for the render job in a web browser before it starts rendering in Chaos Cloud.

You can choose to do all final settings directly in Maya and then submit the scene to Chaos Cloud with the Enable Direct Submit Options button.

Two layer modes are available - Single Layer and Multiple Layers, giving you the option to Batch Render in Chaos Cloud.

Layer Mode Options

Layer Mode - Determines whether one or multiple layers are rendered. Some options vary depending on the mode.

Single Layer - Renders only the visible layer in Maya, with the option to render one or multiple cameras at the same time.

Current Layer - Displays which layer is rendered. Make a different layer visible and click on Refresh at the bottom of the window to switch layers.

Select All Cameras - When enabled, selects all renderable cameras to be submitted to Chaos Cloud.

Renderable Cameras- Lists all available cameras for rendering. Allows for manual selection and exclusion of one or more cameras from the render.

Multiple Layers - Allows for one or multiple layers to be rendered simultaneously.

Select All Layers - When enabled, selects all layers in the scene to be submitted to Chaos Cloud.

Renderable Layers - Lists all the layers in the scene. Allows for manual selection and exclusion of one or more layers from the render.

Enable Direct Submit Options

If you enable the Direct Submit Options, you can enter your Chaos Cloud login information directly in Maya and choose to which Chaos Cloud project to submit the job.

The Login Information panel allows you to select a project where the render job is submitted. The Manage Login button will take you to your Chaos Cloud account should you need to do any changes.

Abort on Warnings – When enabled, the scene will not be submitted to the Chaos Cloud if there are any warnings during the scene processing, such as missing textures or other assets.

Refresh – Forces a refresh of the window.

Close – Closes the Submit to Chaos Cloud window.

Export and Submit

If you have not used the Direct Submit Options, you will be prompted to finalize some of the settings for rendering in the Chaos Cloud in a web browser.

Once the scene is successfully analyzed, you have to finalize some of the settings of the render job before it starts rendering in Chaos Cloud. For more information, visit Batch Rendering with Chaos Cloud.

The cost for rendering a job can be limited by using the Job Credit Limit setting. For more information, see the Credit Limit section.

When ready, click the Submit button. When you are presented with the following message your render job is submitted successfully and it will start rendering in the cloud.

Clicking on View Job redirects you to the Projects tab of Chaos Cloud. There you can monitor the status of your render jobs, download them, organize them in projects, resubmit, or delete them. For more detailed information on these topics, see the Managing render jobs in Chaos Cloud page.

Render Engine Overrides

When rendering a V-Ray GPU job the CUDA CPU Override option allows you to override the render engine to render with CUDA on CPU only. This can be useful when:

• there is no GPU hardware available to render the V-Ray GPU job
• the 16 GB of memory, available on the GPU hardware that Chaos Cloud uses, are not enough for the job to render

When Chaos Cloud detects that there is no GPU hardware available, it shows a warning which asks you whether you want to wait for a GPU hardware and gives you an option to use another command which:

• Stops the rendering of the current job
• Clones the current job and sets the CUDA CPU Override option to ON so the job renders only on CPU

Output Naming Convention

Upon job submission, you can choose the naming convention of the output file(s). You can find the following options in the Output naming panel:

<name> – Specifies the main name of the output.

<render element> – Specifies the position of the render element(s) in the naming convention, if there are such.

<###> – Specifies the padding of the frame's number. This option is available only for animated jobs.

Using the arrows, you can move the position of each name component to customize the output name(s).

Additional Render Settings

In the Common tab of the Render settings resides an additional option when submitting a scene to the cloud.

To override an enabled render region in the VFB, you can use the Disable region for batch and Chaos Cloud option from the Render View rollout.