HOUDINI - budgeting / credit cap per job

HOUDINI - budgeting / credit cap per job

You can set the price limit expressed in credits that the given job can consume before 1 of 3 actions are taken. Go to Jobs tab of your Houdini submission plugin and edit the Credits Budget field by double clicking it, set the desired value:



Finally set the action from the Credits Budget Action that is going to be executed upon reaching the credits limit. Setting it to Alert won’t stop the job but will just notify you via email about surpassing the limit. Stop will terminate the job altogether and Suspend will prevent new frames from being submitted but will allow the currently processed ones to finish:


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