Determines which frames the partitions are created for.

Distinct Frame Ranges

Frame Sequences

When partitioning work items with fractional frames, determines how the frame is converted to an integer for partitioning.

This parameter is only available when Create Partitions For is set to Individual Frames.

Determines how the node should handle work items without a frame value.

Add Work Item to All Partitions

When on, the partitions that are created have their indexes set to the frame number assigned to the partition. When off, the partitions have their indexes set from 0 up to the number of partitions created.

When Wedge Attribute is also on, and you want to split frames by wedge index, it isn’t always possible to set the partition index to the frame number. That is because there may be different wedge variations with the same frame number. In this case, the node maintains a unique index for each partition, but the indexing begins at the first frame in the first wedge instead of at 0.

Determines how the node deals with work items that are missing the range attribute.

This parameter is only available when Create Partitions For is set to Frame Ranges.

Determines the name of the attribute that has the work item’s frame range start/end/step value. The attribute must have at least 2 components and be numeric.

This parameter is only available when Create Partitions For is set to Frame Ranges.

When on, work items that represent a single frame are put into individual partitions. The node detects static frames by checking if the start and end value in the frame range are the same.

This parameter is only available when Create Partitions For is set to Frame Ranges.

When on, work items are split into separate groups before the items are partitioned. This parameter specifies the name of the attribute on the input work items that is used to determine those groups.

For example, you can set this parameter to wedgeindex in order to keep wedge variations in different partitions.

Determines how the node should handle an input work item that does not have the split attribute.

This parameter is only available when Split by Attribute is on.

When Missing Attribute is set to Use Default Value, this parameter specifies the value to use for the split attribute for work items that don’t have the attribute.

When Split by Attribute is set to a list of attribute names, this parameter determines how work items with only some of the attributes should be processed. If partial matches are enabled then work items will be included in partitions based on the attributes that do exist. Otherwise, work items with only a subset of the attributes will be excluded from the partitioning step.

Determines how output files from work items in partitions are merged onto the partitions themselves. By default, all output files from the work item are copied into the partition output file list.

Defines the number of attribute merge operations to perform on the partitioner node. The operations are used to merge attributes from work items in the partition onto the partition itself. Operations are performed in descending order. Attributes are merged using the first operation with a pattern that matches the attribute.

Specifies the operation to perform to merge incoming attributes onto the partition. Each operation only applies only to the subset of attributes matched using the corresponding To Attributes parameter.

The following operations are available:

Specifies which attributes the corresponding Apply Operation parameter should apply to. This field can use the Attribute Pattern Syntax to specify multiple attributes.

When on, the merge operation preserves the original array size of the incoming attributes. The merged array size is determined by the first value found across the input work items. When off, the partitioner flattens the incoming array attributes into a single sequence of values (a single scalar value) and performs the merge operation across all values.

Determines when the partitioning step is performed on the input work items.

Determines which node or nodes(s) should target. Work items in the target nodes are partitioned as soon as they're generated even if the target nodes are not a direct input to this node. The descendants of the target work items are added to the partitions when they become available.

Specifies the target TOP node for the partition when Partition Targets is set to Custom Target Node. The partition scheme is applied to the work items in the target TOP node instead of this node’s input work items. The target TOP node must be in the same graph and above this node.

When this toggle is enabled, the partitioner node will skip input work items that are failed and create partitions from the subset of upstream work items that succeeded. This option is only meaningful if Partition When is set to Input Items are Cooked, or when the partitioner node is wired into a dynamic node that has upstream failures.

Determines the order that work items are sorted in when accessing the partitions on this node. This also affects the sort order of output files on the partition.

Determines whether the work items in this node’s partitions are sorted in ascending or descending order.

Specifies the name of the attribute to sort by.

This parameter is only available when Sort Contents By is set to Attribute.

When on, the list of IDs corresponding to the work items in the partition are written to the specified attribute. The work item IDs are stored as an integer array. This makes it easier to recover the list of partitioned work items downstream of the partitioner node.