I installed Deadline 7 and my renders were generating errors. I did some digging and the error was because Deadline is looking in the wrong path for the render description file:
The Mac OS version of Maya stores render descriptions in “/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/Maya.app/Contents/MacOS/rendererDesc/”
If you copy the vrayRenderer.xml file from there to /Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/Maya.app/Contents/bin/, Deadline stops generating errors and completes the renders:
I definitely agree that we need to fix this, but it’ll take a bit more code than I am sure on, so I’ll have to ask the devs when they get back from the holiday tomorrow, since we’ll need to do this only for the 2015 version. Thanks for pointing it out!
Do you have a “MAYA_RENDER_DESC_PATH” environment variable set on the machine displaying this issue? If not, setting this environment variable either on all your machines or via our job properties, would resolve this VRay installer issue quite elegantly. Essentially, the VRay installer puts this file in a number of places but fails to place it into:
Can I ask, what exact version of VRay you are running as I thought this issue had been reported to Chaos Group and they had resolved in the latest versions? I will update our docs to explain this issue to help future customers.