C4D Team Render: Renders black frames, no errors

Deadline
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Hi all, I’m admining a render farm and adding C4D R17 support, we’re on DL 8.0.17. After some playing I managed to get it working except for one slave that only has the Team Render install of C4D, it renders black frames. I’ve cheked all the job and slave logs, no errors.

Thought I’d have more luck here than a C4D forum, any way to enable logging for a C4D Team Render install?

Here’s the DL slave log for a task that produced black frames:

2017-03-30 10:53:28: Scheduler Thread - All job files are already synchronized 2017-03-30 10:53:28: 0: Start Job timeout is disabled. 2017-03-30 10:53:28: 0: Task timeout is disabled. 2017-03-30 10:53:28: 0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 85-89 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: Executing plugin command of type 'Render Task' 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Render Tasks called 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Pre Build Script 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Rendering main output to network drive 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Running Script: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempyTsqj0\c4d_Batch_Script.py 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempyTsqj0\c4d_Batch_Script.py:43: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: bmp = bitmaps.MultipassBitmap(rd[c4d.RDATA_XRES],rd[c4d.RDATA_YRES], c4d.COLORMODE_RGB) 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 85 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:28 2017> 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 86 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017> 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 87 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017> 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 88 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017> 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Script Ran Successfully 2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 89 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017> 2017-03-30 10:53:30: 0: INFO: Finished Cinema 4D Task 2017-03-30 10:53:30: 0: Done executing plugin command of type 'Render Task' 2017-03-30 10:53:34: Scheduler Thread - All job files are already synchronized 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: Start Job timeout is disabled. 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: Task timeout is disabled. 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 90 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: Executing plugin command of type 'Render Task' 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: INFO: Render Tasks called 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: INFO: Pre Build Script 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: INFO: Rendering main output to network drive 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: INFO: 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: STDOUT: Running Script: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempvZfGa0\c4d_Batch_Script.py 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: STDOUT: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempvZfGa0\c4d_Batch_Script.py:43: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: STDOUT: bmp = bitmaps.MultipassBitmap(rd[c4d.RDATA_XRES],rd[c4d.RDATA_YRES], c4d.COLORMODE_RGB) 2017-03-30 10:53:34: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 90 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:34 2017> 2017-03-30 10:53:35: 0: INFO: Script Ran Successfully 2017-03-30 10:53:35: 0: INFO: Finished Cinema 4D Task 2017-03-30 10:53:35: 0: Done executing plugin command of type 'Render Task' 2017-03-30 10:53:39: 0: Executing plugin command of type 'End Job' 2017-03-30 10:53:39: 0: INFO: End Job called - shutting down Cinema 4D Batch plugin 2017-03-30 10:53:39: 0: INFO: Sending End Job 2017-03-30 10:53:40: 0: Done executing plugin command of type 'End Job'

And the task log:

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Log

2017-03-30 10:53:28: BEGIN - WEXRF05\hsglab
2017-03-30 10:53:28: 0: Start Job timeout is disabled.
2017-03-30 10:53:28: 0: Task timeout is disabled.
2017-03-30 10:53:28: 0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 85-89
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: Executing plugin command of type ‘Render Task’
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Render Tasks called
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Pre Build Script
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Rendering main output to network drive
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO:
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Running Script: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempyTsqj0\c4d_Batch_Script.py
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempyTsqj0\c4d_Batch_Script.py:43: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: bmp = bitmaps.MultipassBitmap(rd[c4d.RDATA_XRES],rd[c4d.RDATA_YRES], c4d.COLORMODE_RGB)
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 85 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:28 2017>
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 86 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017>
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 87 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017>
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 88 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017>
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: INFO: Script Ran Successfully
2017-03-30 10:53:29: 0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 89 at <Thu Mar 30 10:53:29 2017>
2017-03-30 10:53:30: 0: INFO: Finished Cinema 4D Task
2017-03-30 10:53:30: 0: Done executing plugin command of type ‘Render Task’

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Details

Date: 03/30/2017 10:53:30
Frames: 85-89
Job Submit Date: 03/30/2017 10:52:36
Job User: gemof
Average RAM Usage: 0 (0%)
Peak RAM Usage: 0 (0%)
Average CPU Usage: 0%
Peak CPU Usage: 0%
Used CPU Clocks (x10^6 cycles): 0
Total CPU Clocks (x10^6 cycles): 0

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Slave Information

Slave Name: WEXRF05
Version: v8.0.13.3 Release (2c55876a9)
Operating System: Windows 10 Enterprise
Running As Service: No
Machine User: hsglab
IP Address: 10.178.253.1
MAC Address: 40:A8:F0:C9:A3:89
CPU Architecture: x64
CPUs: 24
CPU Usage: 60%
Memory Usage: 6.3 GB / 127.9 GB (4%)
Free Disk Space: 341.683 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro K5000[/code]

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TNK!

Geordie

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Hi,
The C4D error is this:

2017-03-30 10:53:34:  0: STDOUT: C:\Users\hsglab\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline8\slave\wexrf05\jobsData\58dd45e47c1fc055d40228ac\thread0_tempvZfGa0\c4d_Batch_Script.py:43: DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float

which was fixed in Deadline 8.0.16.1:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … s.html#id5

Then, looking at the bottom of your provided task log, I see that this one rogue Slave is still running:

Version: v8.0.13.3 Release (2c55876a9)

Are you sure you are running 8.0.17.1? (Check the VERSION column in your Slave Panel in Monitor. Are they ALL matching?)

So, I would try remoting into it and uninstalling and reinstalling the Deadline client software to make sure it gets upgraded to 8.0.17.1, which you mentioned at the beginning of your post that you are running (which is the latest 8.0 release; although 9.0 is now available):
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … notes.html

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Thanks! Sorry I thought we were on a later version.

Since this post I learnt a lot more about C4D and we have enough commandline licenses to conver that avenue.