0% progess with Maya

Deadline
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Hi,



First of all, I should point out I’m not a ‘Maya user’, nor have I rendered anything before.



I’m trying to set up a test farm here at the University where I work, with a view to purchasing licenses for a small render farm (mainly to use with Maya 7).



I’ve set up one machine as a repository (and also slave), and another as a slave. I have a small job (containing 10 frames of a ball bouncing) which I’m trying to render. AFAIK I’ve set up everything correctly on both the repository and also the slave(s).



When I submit the job (from the Monitor) it appears fine, and he slaves pick up the job fine (and the Maya output window appears). However, rendering progress sits forever on 0% (even when refreshed)



I’ve checked the usual things;



-Deadline is picking up Maya’s exe correctly.

-The project opens fine in Maya.

-I’ve tried sending the project from/to both the repository and the slave.



Here’s the slave log;



BEGIN - 2007-01-22 11-12-47 - ANIMTECH\slightly

---- January 22 2007 – 11:12 AM ----

0: Loaded job: 11-11am (00j_075_o_4924be23)

0: INFO: Script plugin for Deadline 2.6.24779, built Nov 27 2006 03:04:49 R

0: INFO: >> Maya Renderer for Deadline, 2004-10-09

0: INFO: job file: c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\00j_075_o_4924be23.job

0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1

0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows matching “.entry point.”

0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows matching “.Entry Point.”

0: INFO: Rendering to network drive…

0: INFO: Rendering with Maya 7

0: INFO: Rendering with Maya Software.

FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.

0: INFO: Not enforcing a build of Maya

0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya7.0\bin\maya.exe”

0: INFO: Arguments: " -renderer sw -n 0 -pad 4 -s 1 -e 1 -b 1 “c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\bouncing-ball.mb”"

0: INFO: StartupDir: “C:/Deadline/temp/”

0: INFO: UseJobObject: true

0: INFO: HideDosWindow: true

---- January 22 2007 – 11:13 AM ----

FREE MODE: Repository has two slaves including this one - no license required.



What am I doing wrong?

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Hi Chris,



Try using “C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya7.0\bin\Render.exe” as the render

executable instead of “C:\Program Files\Alias\Maya7.0\bin\maya.exe”.

Render.exe is Maya’s command line application. You can change the render

executable for Maya 7 in the Deadline Monitor while in Super User mode.

Select Tools -> Configure Plugins, and then select the Maya plugin from

the list on the left.



Cheers,

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hangs head in shame



I knew it would be something simple/stupid.



Thanks!