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Job assignment options
The Network Job Assignment dialog box, shown previously in Figure 48.7, has an important section that
you didn’t use for your first simple render job; it’s called Options.
The Options section has the following settings:
l Enabled Notifications: Lets you tell Max when to notify you that certain events have occurred. If
you check the Enable Notifications option, the Define button becomes active. The Define button
opens a Notifications dialog box, shown in Figure 48.10.
FIGURE 48.10 Chapter 48: Batch and Network Rendering
The Notifications dialog box lets you specify which type of notifications to receive.

l Split Scan Lines: This option breaks a rendered image into strips that can be rendered sepa-
rately. The Define button lets you specify the Strip Height, Number of Strips, and any Overlap.
l Ignore Scene Path: Use this option to force the servers to retrieve the scene file via TCP/IP. If dis-
abled, the manager copies the scene file to the server.
l Rendered Frame Window: Use this option if you want to be able to see the image on the server
as it gets rendered.
l Include Maps: Checking this box makes Max compress everything that it needs to render the
scene (including the maps) into a single file and send it to each server. This option is useful if
you’re setting up a rendering farm over the Internet, although it takes more time and network
bandwidth to send all that extra information.
l Initially Suspended: This option pauses the rendering before it starts so that you can manually
start it when the network is ready.
l Use Selected/Use Group/Use All Servers: The Server Usage option makes the selected server, a
group of servers, or all servers listed in the Server panel fair game for rendering.
l Use Alternate Path File: This option lets you specify an alternate path for map and other files,
which is entered in the text field below the check box.

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