This page provides information on managing render jobs in Chaos Cloud.
Overview
With Chaos Cloud you are able to submit, queue, monitor, and organize your render jobs across projects. 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.
Your Credits Balance is now displayed on each Chaos Cloud portal page. It is visible in the top right corner next to the login information.
Managing Jobs Through the Web Interface
In the web interface of Chaos Cloud log in with your Chaos Group account and password.
Home
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.
Projects
The Projects tab hosts all render jobs submitted to Chaos Cloud. 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 Chaos Cloud. Every render job needs to be allocated to a project.
To create a new empty project, press the 
button. A small pop-up window asking you to enter a name for your project appears.
If Set as default is enabled, the newly created project becomes the default one, meaning that all subsequent render job submissions are automatically allocated to that project unless changed manually before submission.
To set a new default project, press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Set as default.
To delete a project, press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Delete.
To rename a project, press the settings button while mouse-hovering over a project and select Rename.
To manually save to Google Drive 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. Note that you have to give Chaos Cloud access to your Google Drive account in advance from Options > Google Drive Integration. If you prefer to save the output images automatically to Google Drive, you can enable the automatic save option. See the Save a job section below.
Clicking on a project shows its contained render items. Here you can monitor, pause, cancel, move, delete, download a render job, or save it to Google Drive.
To pause an ongoing render, go to the Settings button (
) and select Pause.
To cancel an ongoing render altogether, go to the Settings button () and select Stop.
To delete a completed render, press the Delete option.
You can also delete a group of renders. To do so, select the jobs by clicking on them, and then press Delete. Another way is to select the first and last render job while holding Shift.
To move a job to another project, go to the Settings button () 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.
The project list in the modal window can be sorted by name.
To download a completed render job, press the Download.
To manually save the output images of a job to your Google Drive, press the Settings button ( ) and select Save to Google Drive. Note that you have to give Chaos Cloud access to your Google Drive account in advance from Options > Google Drive Integration. An automatic save option is also available. See the Save a job section below.
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. Another way to select the jobs is to select the first and last render job while holding Shift.
Jobs
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.
To delete the render job, press the Settings button () 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 () and select Report.
To view the render log, press the Settings button ( ) and select View log details.
To rename the render job, press the Settings button ( ) and select Rename.
To move a job to another project, press the Settings button ( ) 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.
The project list in the modal window can be sorted by name.
The progress of ongoing render jobs can be observed in real-time from the Job Details page.
Cloning a render job using the Clone button allows you to set new final render settings.
Download Options
When a job output is larger than 100 MB, Chaos Cloud offers a few download options.
You can download all files at once using the command prompt. Copy the command that appears in the download manager after you press the Download button. Paste it into your command prompt.
The downloaded files are located in your Download folder. You can change the default Download to another folder by editing the "output" flag.
If the output is bigger than 100 MB, you have one more option how to download the output - the Output File Browser. By using it you are able to select which of the files to download one by one. Each file's name is a link to download it.
The files can also be downloaded in groups. The groups are defined by the available output files' extensions which always include a JPG and the file type you have specified in the V-Ray options. If the output file type is not defined, Chaos Cloud generates JPG and EXR files by default. E.g. if you have JPGs and EXRs in the output, you are able to download each group of JPG and EXR files separately by clicking on the respective button.
The output files are also grouped by render elements from the Output File Browser if the output has separate files for the render elements generated by V-Ray. For example, if you select in the host app to generate single channel EXR for output, you have the render elements as separate files.
Another option is to download the files using your browser. Press the No, thank you! Download from browser option to start downloading.
Save a Job
The output of your Chaos Cloud job can be saved to your Google Drive account. To be able to save it, you have to sign in to your Google Drive account and give Chaos Cloud access permissions from the Options page (Options > Google Drive Integration). You can revoke these permissions directly from your Google Account whenever you want or disable the integration from the Options page.
If you want to use a different Google Drive account, go to the Chaos Cloud Options page, disable the Google Drive integration and sign in with the other account.
You can choose between manual and auto save. If you want to save each output image to Google Drive as soon as it is ready without manual interaction, you can turn on the auto save from the respective toggle in the Options page (Options > Google Drive Integration > Save job outputs to Google Drive automatically). The auto save is especially useful for animations because as soon as an animation frame is rendered, it is automatically saved in the Google Drive folder - therefore, available for review, sharing and download.
If you don't turn on the auto save, you have to manually save each job output in Google Drive from the respective context command of the job. You can also save the output images of several jobs in bulk. See the Project section above.
Save to Google Drive is available for all jobs submitted after July 2018. Earlier jobs are not supported.
After manually saving the output images, an in-browser notification pops up and gives you a link to the Google Drive folder where the images will be (or are already) saved. The same link is available in the Job Details page for both - manually and automatically saved jobs. The link is in the right column with other job details such as download size, resolution, render mode, project name, render time, used credits, etc.
The output images of a job are saved in a separate Google Drive folder, whose name follows the structure: "jobname (job uid)".
Several collaboration features come out-of-the-box with the Google Drive integration. You will be able to share links to the output images and add comments.
How to get a Job ID
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.
Credit Limit
The cost for rendering a job can be limited by using the Job Credit Limit setting in the submission step.
Job credit limit is available only for still images.
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.