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Part XI: Advanced Lighting and Rendering
l Render Elements: Lists the details of each render element included as part of the job.
l Log: Displays important messages from the job log. Whereas the log file on each server lists
events for a particular server, this pane lets you see all the messages relating to a particular job.
When you point at a job in the top-left pane and right-click, a small pop-up menu appears. On this menu,
you can delete a job from the queue or you can choose to activate or deactivate it. If you deactivate a job, all
the servers working on that job save their work in progress to disk and then move on to the next job in the
queue. This feature is very useful when you have a lower-priority job that you run when no other jobs are
waiting; when something more important comes along, you deactivate the job so that you can later activate
it when the servers are free again.
One last useful feature for jobs is that you can reorder them by dragging a job above or below other jobs.
Jobs higher on the screen are rendered before lower ones, which enables you to “bump up” the priority of a
particular job without having to deactivate other ones.
Note
A file with a Critical priority is rendered immediately. n
Servers
If you right-click a server and select Properties from the pop-up menu, the Server Properties dialog box,
shown in Figure 48.14, opens. This dialog box contains information about the selected server.
FIGURE 48.14
The Server Properties dialog box displays information about the server.

Many other features are available in the right-click pop-up menu. Using this pop-up menu, you can assign
the server to a selected job, remove the server from its selected job, display specific server information, cre-
ate a server group, or view the Week Schedule, as shown in Figure 48.15. Using the Week Schedule dialog
box, you can set the active rendering period for a server.

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