AfStarter¶
AfStarter is a standalone dialog to submit a job to Afanasy.
Supported software¶
Adobe After Effects
Autodesk 3D Studio Max
- Software
- VRay
Autodesk Maya
- Software
- 3DeLight
- VRay
- Arnold
- Mental Ray
- Redshift
Autodesk SoftImage XSI
Blender
- Internal
- Cycles
Clarisse iFX
Cinema 4D
Fusion
Isotropix Clarisse
Natron
SideFX Houdini
- HBatch (hython)
- Mantra (standalone)
The Foundry Nuke
Scene Settings¶

Scene Parameters:
- File: Scene file path. IFD files sequence for Mantra.
- Working Directory/Project: Tasks process working folder, default is scene folder. Project path for Maya.
- Output Images: Some software allows to override output images in command line arguments.
- Frames: Frame range to render, ‘by’ - frames step or increment, ‘per task’ - number of frames in one task.
- Node/Camera: Houdini ROP, Nuke write node, Max, Maya camera to render, After FX composition.
- Take/Layer/Pass/Batch: Houdini take, SoftImage pass, Maya layer, Max batch to render, After FX render settings template.
- Recent: Store recent sent jobs settings.
- Start: Submit job to Afanasy server. It can be started in off-line state (“paused”).
Afanasy Job Settings¶

Afanasy Parameters:
- Name: Job name, scene file name is used by default.
- Capacity: Tasks capacity attribute value. ‘-1’ means use the default.
- Priority: Job order in user jobs list.
- Maximum Running Tasks: Maximum number of tasks can be running at the same time.
- Depend Mask: Job(s) name pattern to wait to. Global: wait job(s) of any user.
- Hosts Mask: Host(s) name pattern to run on. Exclude: not to run on such hosts.