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Backburner Manager Name or IP

 – Specifies the name of the Backburner manager or its IP address.

Backburner Server Group Name

 – Specifies the server group to use to process the simulation. This can be useful if only a select number of machines in the farm should be used for the simulation job. See

the Choosing a Backburner Server Group

 section for more information.

Run only the Simulation and do not Render

 – Backburner calculates the simulation but will not render the frames after it's done.

Submit the Job Suspended

 – The Backburner job will not start automatically when submitted and will need to be started manually from within Backburner. This can be useful if you want to setup multiple jobs at once and set their priorities or their timeouts within Backburner, which is 600 minutes by default and can be extended only manually.

Simulation Cache Output Directory Override

 – Changes the simulation cache files output directory to a specific location. The cache file names will remain the same as specified by the individual simulators. If this option is not set, Phoenix uses the Output paths set in the selected simulators. Note that these paths should be set to absolute paths or network shared locations (for

example C:\...\ChacheName.aur; D:\...\CacheName.aur

 or network

path \\...\CacheName.aur) when submitting a job, because Backburner will copy the scene to a temporary directory when executing the job and if a simulator's Output path is relative to the scene location, e.g.

using $(scene_path), then the cache files will be created in this temporary directory and could be hard to locate.

Render Output Directory Override

 – Changes the render files output directory to a specific location. If not set, the render output files will be saved in the path specified by the Render Setup settings of 3ds Max. If this path is also not set, then the rendering process will not write image files. The file names and type will be taken from the Render Setup settings of 3ds Max, or if not set, the scene name will be used as the filename and the frames will be saved as JPEGs.