A few XSi errors to look at :D

joconnell · February 18, 2008, 10:33pm

Hi folks,

3:23 am here and of course all the XSI folks have gone home so max boy is trying to solve render errors from XSI passes. We’ve got a few nodes that seem to error on everything and some that are reliable so I’ve cut down the nodes to the seemingly useful ones. There seems to be some fairly common render errors thrown which are a tad cryptic - nothing like missing paths etc. Any chance of any light being shed on them? We’re using XSI 6.5 and 6.01 on the nodes - a few of them seem to render 6.5 scenes on 6.01 via compatibility mode.

Here’s some common errors:

Error Message

Exception during render: ’ ERROR : 2008-REND-RenderPasses - Operation was aborted.

Slave Log

) 1998-2007 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.

0: STDOUT: ==================================================

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: License warning: feature [XSI Batch Win] not available

0: STDOUT: License information: using [XSI Batch All]

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : ms_xsiMetaballs plugin has been loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : ms_xsiRTInstanceDisplay_mt_mg loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : mt_pelt Plugin has been loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : XSIExportToVRayMeshOptions()

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : XSIImportVRayMeshOptions()

0: STDOUT: COMMAND: -render “\Thecore\Core\3D\XSI_DB\Irish_Times_Chairs\Scenes\Animation\Sports_Scene\Sports_Scene_Final_Render.scn” -frames 60,60,1 -pass “stop_watch_RGB” -output_dir “G:\3D\XSI_DB\IrishTimes_Sit\Render_Pictures\Final_Renders\Sport\Sport_Elements” -skip False -mb False -script “c:\deadline\slave\plugins\AdditionalRenderOptions.vbs” -main SetAdditionalRenderOptions -args -verbose 60 -width “720” -height “576” -sampleMin “0” -sampleMax “2” -sampleFilter “gauss” -sampleJitter “True” -outputPrefix “” -xMin “” -yMin “” -xMax “” -yMax “”

0: STDOUT: >Loading: \Thecore\Core\3D\XSI_DB\Irish_Times_Chairs\Scenes\Animation\Sports_Scene\Sports_Scene_Final_Render.scn…

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : 4034 - Loaded scene was created with build number: 6.5.2007.0829 - compatibility version: 600

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : VRayEndScene_OnEvent called

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering passes: Passes.stop_watch_RGB

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering frames 60 to 60 with a frame step of 1

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Setting the output directory to ‘G:\3D\XSI_DB\IrishTimes_Sit\Render_Pictures\Final_Renders\Sport\Sport_Elements’

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Motion blur disabled.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Overwrite rendered frames.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering pass ‘stop_watch_RGB’…

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering frame 60 (0.0% done)

Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:

Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: ’ ERROR : 2008-REND-RenderPasses - Operation was aborted.

Error Type

RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTasks(Int32 startTask, Int32 endTask)

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTask(Int32 task)

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 frame)

at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

something similar:

Error Message

Exception during render: ’ ERROR : 2008-REND-RenderPasses - Operation was aborted.

Slave Log

hnology, Inc. All rights reserved.

0: STDOUT: ==================================================

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: License warning: feature [XSI Batch Win] not available

0: STDOUT: License information: using [XSI Batch All]

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : ms_xsiMetaballs plugin has been loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : ms_xsiRTInstanceDisplay_mt_mg loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : mt_pelt Plugin has been loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : XSIExportToVRayMeshOptions()

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : XSIImportVRayMeshOptions()

0: STDOUT: COMMAND: -render “\Thecore\Core\3D\XSI_DB\Irish_Times_Chairs\Scenes\Animation\Sports_Scene\Sports_Scene_Final_Render.scn” -frames 63,63,1 -pass “chair_RGB_MB_beginning” -output_dir “G:\3D\XSI_DB\IrishTimes_Sit\Render_Pictures\Final_Renders\Sport\Sport_Elements” -skip False -mb True -script “c:\deadline\slave\plugins\AdditionalRenderOptions.vbs” -main SetAdditionalRenderOptions -args -verbose 60 -width “720” -height “576” -sampleMin “0” -sampleMax “2” -sampleFilter “box” -sampleJitter “True” -outputPrefix “” -xMin “” -yMin “” -xMax “” -yMax “”

0: STDOUT: >Loading: \Thecore\Core\3D\XSI_DB\Irish_Times_Chairs\Scenes\Animation\Sports_Scene\Sports_Scene_Final_Render.scn…

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : 4034 - Loaded scene was created with build number: 6.5.2007.0829 - compatibility version: 600

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : VRayEndScene_OnEvent called

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering passes: Passes.chair_RGB_MB_beginning

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering frames 63 to 63 with a frame step of 1

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Setting the output directory to ‘G:\3D\XSI_DB\IrishTimes_Sit\Render_Pictures\Final_Renders\Sport\Sport_Elements’

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Motion blur enabled.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Overwrite rendered frames.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering pass ‘chair_RGB_MB_beginning’…

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering frame 63 (0.0% done)

Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:

Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: ’ ERROR : 2008-REND-RenderPasses - Operation was aborted.

Error Type

RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTasks(Int32 startTask, Int32 endTask)

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTask(Int32 task)

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 frame)

at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

Another:

Error Message

Exception during render: ’ ERROR : One or more framebuffers were invalid. Render aborted.

Slave Log

007 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved.

0: STDOUT: ==================================================

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: License warning: feature [XSI Batch Win] not available

0: STDOUT: License information: using [XSI Batch All]

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : ms_xsiMetaballs plugin has been loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : ms_xsiRTInstanceDisplay_mt_mg loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : mt_pelt Plugin has been loaded.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : XSIExportToVRayMeshOptions()

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : XSIImportVRayMeshOptions()

0: STDOUT: COMMAND: -render “\Thecore\Core\3D\XSI_DB\Irish_Times_Chairs\Scenes\Animation\Sports_Scene\Sports_Scene_Final_Render.scn” -frames 61,61,1 -pass “skater_dude_RGB” -output_dir “G:\3D\XSI_DB\IrishTimes_Sit\Render_Pictures\Final_Renders\Sport\Sport_Elements” -skip False -mb True -script “c:\deadline\slave\plugins\AdditionalRenderOptions.vbs” -main SetAdditionalRenderOptions -args -verbose 60 -width “720” -height “576” -sampleMin “0” -sampleMax “2” -sampleFilter “gauss” -sampleJitter “True” -outputPrefix “” -xMin “” -yMin “” -xMax “” -yMax “”

0: STDOUT: >Loading: \Thecore\Core\3D\XSI_DB\Irish_Times_Chairs\Scenes\Animation\Sports_Scene\Sports_Scene_Final_Render.scn…

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : 4034 - Loaded scene was created with build number: 6.5.2007.0829 - compatibility version: 600

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : VRayEndScene_OnEvent called

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering passes: Passes.skater_dude_RGB

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering frames 61 to 61 with a frame step of 1

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Setting the output directory to ‘G:\3D\XSI_DB\IrishTimes_Sit\Render_Pictures\Final_Renders\Sport\Sport_Elements’

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Motion blur enabled.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Overwrite rendered frames.

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering pass ‘skater_dude_RGB’…

0: STDOUT: ’ INFO : Rendering frame 61 (0.0% done)

Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:

Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: ’ ERROR : One or more framebuffers were invalid. Render aborted.

Error Type

RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTasks(Int32 startTask, Int32 endTask)

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.RenderTask(Int32 task)

at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 frame)

at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

Any thoughts on what might be the issue? In this it’s a bit of bad timing (not that there’s ever good timing in post) since some of the folks didn’t fully test their scenes through deadline before putting in a lot of render passes per setup - If only they used max i’d have it all working

rrussell · February 19, 2008, 10:07am

Hi John,

You’re right - those error messages don’t provide any insight on what

the problem might be. Compatibility between different versions of XSI

could be the culprit, but it’s hard to say for sure. One thing you could

try is to open up a scene on one of the “bad” slaves and render normally

though XSI. If an error still occurs, maybe XSI can provide more

information than XSIBATCH is returning.

Cheers,

Ryan

–

Ryan Russell

Frantic Films Software

http://www.franticfilms.com/software/

204-949-0070

joconnell · February 19, 2008, 1:57pm

Turns out the rather cryptic renderpasses 2008 error was that the scene file didn’t have a tick next to the file output name so it was setting it up, rendering it and then not saving the file - the not saving parts seems to be translated into a rather unhelpful message that makes it look like something worse. Maybe that might be part of the future XSI submission script to check for a tick box in the different passes to see if they’re set to output?

I’ll go through the files again soon, we’re back to bat files for the minute due to time constraints but they’ll be a good test in more relaxed conditions.

joconnell · February 27, 2008, 8:03am

Just as an aside - the infamous -1073741819 error doesn’t seem to be memory related - it’s the same issue with royal render and apparently an issue with XSI instead. Here’s a fix although I’m not 100% on how it’s implemented:

http://www.binaryalchemy.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=651&view=previous&sid=dce6b8afa0fea3bb70814951d9c2a18e

joconnell · February 27, 2008, 8:08am

Seems those files are to do with XSI workgroups and plugins not loading properly - http://softimage.wiki.avid.com/xsidocs/custom_basics_CreatingandUsingWorkgroups.htm

anon60034316 · April 25, 2008, 10:53pm

Hi!

Any idea how to fix the infamous -1073741819?

“Ok… I deleted the [RRender]\render_settings\xsi\Softimage\XSI_65\Application\spdl.xsiindex file (which was the file accessed last).

It re-created the file and everything works fine.”

I don’t see the spdl.xsiindex file anywhere!

regards

rrussell · April 26, 2008, 11:22am

Hi Gary,

I don’t see the spdl.xsiindex file anywhere!

From the looks of the path, this file is specific to Royal Render, which would explain why you can’t find it if you’re using Deadline.

Check out this thread on our forum:

http://support.franticfilms.com/wb/default.asp?action=9&read=563&fid=7&BoardID=2#2402

If you look at the 3rd post from the bottom, someone else found a solution that worked for them. Maybe it can help you too. This thread also contains a potential workaround to the problem where you can configure Deadline to ignore this error code.

Cheers,

Ryan