Delete Bad Frames on Backburner

12 votes
Version: 
0.02
Date Updated: 
12/26/2008

This script allows you to delete bad frames that were rendered by a given
node on backburner. This happens if the render farm is heterogeneous
(= different software or hardware configuration on the render nodes). Instead
of manually deleting the frames, it will delete all frames that were rendered
by a certain machine for a certain job. To find out which frames need to be
deleted it connects to the manager and fetches information about every
rendered frame. If the frame was rendered by the machine that has the name
specified by the user, it will be deleted. Afterwards, the job can be restarted
with "skip existing frames" option activated to only rerender the missing frames.

Attention:
Please use this on your own risk and make backups of the directory. There is
no undo function ! I thoroughly tested the script and it works fine within our
pipeline but I do not take any responsibility for deleted files.

The verbose messages option in the ui can be set to get detailed information
about which files are going to be deleted.

Configuration:
1. Set the subnet mask under configuration (see section below)
2. run script (Menu -> MAXScript -> Run Script)
3. Enter job and machine name.
4. Hit delete.

Additional Info: 

For further questions, bug reports or wish lists please email me. My email address is in the header of the file. Thanks !

Version Requirement: 
3ds max 9, 2008, 2009
Video URL: 
AttachmentSize
r7_Delete_BB_Bad_Frames.ms9.3 KB

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juumax's picture

not quite working

Great Idea for a script but has anyone been able to use this is 2014 design version? I keep getting this message. It seems that it dosent seem my nodes but can see the jobs any ideas?

No frames by "renderer9" found ,

relief7's picture

Yeah, there are many ways of

Yeah, there are many ways of doing it. I used to use total commander (which is the most amazing tool I have seen btw) or feed a list of files into perl and let the perl script do it.

But why not use a one-click solution if you can :-) Hehe !

vsai's picture

Handy script, beats the old

Handy script, beats the old way we had done it of exporting the rendererd frame list as csv, sorting in excel, and export out a list of frames in comma delimted to stick them in the Frames:[ ] box!

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