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to help analyze your network rendering setup and better distribute the workload. Job list The job list, located on the lower-right side of the Network Job Assignment dialog, displays all jobs submitted to the network manager. Also shown are each job's priority, status, and output file path. To change job settings and manage jobs, use the Backburner Monitor. See "Modifying Job Settings" and "Monitoring and Managing Jobs" in the Autodesk Backburner User's Guide. Advanced Opens the Advanced Settings dialog on page 6497, where you can make settings for Per-Job Timeouts, TCP port number, Pre-Render MAXScripts and Job Handling. Submit Click Submit to exit this dialog and send the current job to the Network Manager, which places it in the queue for rendering. When you submit a rendering job, if the output file name to be used by the job is the same as that used by an existing job, you're asked if you want to overwrite the existing file(s). Also, if the name of the submitted job replicates one already in the rendering queue, an alert notifies you; click OK, change the job name, and submit it again. NOTE Submitting a job creates a folder for the job on the manager machine in the \Program Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network\jobs\ folder. In that folder is a compressed file with a .maz extension containing the scene file. You can extract the scene from the command prompt using the maxunzip.exe program, found in the 3ds Max program directory. For example, to extract a file named testfile.maz, assuming the program is installed in a folder named \3ds Max 2009\, open the command prompt, navigate to the \Program Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network\jobs folder, and enter this: "\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\maxunzip" testfile.maz. You must specify the .maz file-name extension; otherwise you'll get an error message. Cancel Discards changes and exits the dialog. Job Dependencies Dialog Rendering menu > Render Setup > Render Setup dialog > Turn on Net Render (Render Output group). > Render > Network Job Assignment dialog > Connect to a Manager. > Priority group > Dependencies 6490 | Chapter 20 Rendering