C4D R18 and DL8.0.14.1

Deadline
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Hello,

The CommandLineRenderer simply does not want to work for us.

We always get this Error report:

Cheers
Thomas

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Quick question. Maxon requires you to have C4D “Command-Line” licenses for network rendering now. Do you own and have available on your network, such licenses?

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Yes, the commandline licenses are available

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Alrighty. Can you resubmit the job with the option: “Use Batch Plugin” disabled. Does the job render ok then? If not, can you provide an updated log report?

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If I enter it in the CMD so it works.

Commandline.exe -nogui -render “C:\Test_Do.c4d” -frame 0 0 -oimage “c:\Take_02_” -omultipass “c:\Take_02_MP_”

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ok, thanks. If you open up a command prompt on an example rendernode machine and paste this string into the command prompt window and hit execute; does it render correctly? (You will need to re-add your commented out ------ text)

"C:\Program Files\MAXON\CINEMA 4D R18\Commandline.exe" -nogui -render "C:\Users\---------\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\------\jobsData\58ca8a475945ff3428b1bfc0\Test_Do.c4d" -frame 82 82 -oimage "\\ds-rz-01\3d\projekte\c4d_testprojekt\images\Take_02_" -omultipass "\\--------\3d\projekte\c4d_testprojekt\images\Take_02_MP_"

If it still fails, then there is an issue with this specific scene file and we have successfully eliminated Deadline form the equation now. So, it will be a case of slowly removing elements from the C4D scene file to narrow down the issue here. Does this scene file open up on other machines ok and renders?

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it’s only a box without textures…
With cmd input it works.
I can open the file on mac and windows workstations…

I have only deleted slave names there

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next test…

i run this line from deadline error report:

and it works too

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Hmmm…interesting. Can you send us this test .c4d file?

Ah…I went to startup C4D here and it looks like our annual NFR licenses need renewing with Maxon…that will take a little while to resolve.

In the meantime, try submitting with these options disabled:

“Submit Cinema 4D Scene”
“Enable Local Rendering”
“Use Batch Plugin”

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Scene file:
Test03.rar (72.8 KB)
Test_Do.rar (113 KB)

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Error:

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I wish I could boot up a copy of C4D to help you today…

Silly question, but I found this old post on our forum from 2015:
forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/vie … 515#p58219

Is your machine up-to-date with Windows Updates and been rebooted since you installed R18? Maybe try a reboot anyway?

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Sometimes it can be so easy …
I had not found the post.

it works now! Thanks Mike!

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Nice one! I’m going to add this as a “Known Error Message” in our C4D docs as its not the first time this thing has bitten someone. Thanks for your patience on this one. :sunglasses: