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[7.2.0.17] HOUDINI, fail with mixed render nodes

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#1

Hi,
I was previously testing deadline with 7.1 release, and because a bug with mixed render node (output path and textures path not converted) i’ve jumped in beta to test the 7.2 beta [7.2.0.17]

I have OSX nodes and WIN nodes, the jobs was submited from a MAC

The paths have the same problems than with 7.1 the output file and textures are not converted.

I’m doing something wrong ???

EDIT: on the previous log i was trying some bidirectionnal path mapping, though that was the problem, but in fact after re-editing the paths, the problem is the same. Here is now with the last beta build
mantra2_windows_bad.txt (34.3 KB)
mantra2_osx_ok.txt (34.6 KB)
htoa2_windows_bad.txt (45 KB)

#2

OK,
After some times i have mixed results…

  • If i use a full path like /server/folder/etc for textures or outputs the renders fails
  • If i use an environment variable like $JOB this doesn’t work as this fallback into the home folder, the variable isn’t passed.
  • If i use $HIP that’s works, in fact any path formated without $HIP fails at path translation

…

cheers,
Noël

#3

HI Noël, It’s possible that there’s an issue with our path mapping code. We’ll investigate and see what might be causing this. Thanks for the report!

#4

We’re about to push the RC into testing shortly and will test with Window and Linux path tools. Will report back on this next week all being well.
Cheers

#5

Hey Noel,

Sorry about the late reply. It appears that Houdini’s pathmapping functionality (the HOUDINI_PATHMAP env variable) does not work with absolute paths. I am trying to contact Side effects to see if they have any idea what we can do about this in the mean time.
For $JOB it is pulling the $JOB variable from the slave that is rendering the job so on other machines that would make sense. You can set custom environment envs for jobs that should cover that.

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