Deadline 3.1 SP1 - Maya 2010 Patch

[twuelfing]

is there a timeframe for Maya 2010 submission support?

[rrussell]

Official Maya 2010 support will be included in the next Deadline release, which is due out around the end of November. In the meantime, attached is a patch that adds Maya 2010 support to Deadline 3.1 SP1. First, make a backup copy of the following files, just in case:

\your\repository\plugins\MayaBatch\MayaBatch.dlinit
\your\repository\plugins\MayaBatch\MayaBatch.param
\your\repository\plugins\MayaCmd\MayaCmd.dlinit
\your\repository\plugins\MayaCmd\MayaCmd.param
\your\repository\scripts\Submission\MayaSubmission\MayaSubmission.py

Then unzip the attached file to \your\repository.

Finally, you may need to reconfigure your MayaCmd and MayaBatch plugins to point to the correct render executables.

Cheers,

• Ryan
  Maya2010.zip (5.99 KB)

[anon42925595]

We are about to deploy this patch to our renderfarm, are there any known issues or bugs/workarounds we should be aware of?

Cheers!

Dennis

[rrussell]

Hi Dennis,

There are no known issues.

Cheers,
Ryan

[anon42925595]

Setting up was as easy as you discribed;
after changing the ‘2009’ version entry in our custom submission scripts to ‘2010’ we were good to go and are happily rendering our senes. Great

[lieven]

Hi Ryan,

Is there already any news of the new release of deadline so that Maya 2010 submission is supported?

Thank you,
Lieven

[rrussell]

Deadline 4.0, which includes Maya 2010 support out of the box, should be released in January. This patch adds support to 3.1 SP1 though, so if you are running the latest Deadline version and need to render with Maya 2010, this patch will do the trick.

Cheers,

• Ryan

[lieven]

Alright,

Looking forward to that!

[anon19604785]

Finally, you may need to reconfigure your MayaCmd and MayaBatch plugins to point to the correct render executables.

Hi can you elaborate a bit more on how to do this, we a little stuck at this part. Thank you

[anon23548865]

In the Monitor, while in Super User mode, click “Options->Configure Plugins…” and make sure the render executable paths for both MayaCmd and Mayabatch are configured properly for the versions you intend to render with. These executable fields must contain the location where the Slaves have Maya installed locally on the machines (ex. “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2010\bin\Render.exe”). If it might be installed in several different locations, you can have multiple paths separated by a “;”.

MayaCmd should point to the “Render.exe” executable, while MayaBatch needs to point to the “MayaBatch.exe” executable.

-Cody

[anon19604785]

Hi, maybe i should make a new thread for this, but i get this error after setting up the plugin configuration.

Error Message
Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in RenderArgument(): GetBooleanConfigEntry: Could not parse value for key LocalRendering into a boolean because GetConfigEntry: Script accessed non-existent config key LocalRendering (FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcessAbort) (Deadline.Plugins.RenderPluginException)
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage)

Slave Log
oups|Rendering current frame"
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.Error: .|.Warning: .”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “[PROGRESS] ([0-9]+) percent”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “progr: +([0-9]+.[0-9]+)% +rendered”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “progr: +([0-9]+.[0-9]+)% +computing final gather points”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “progr: +rendering finished”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “[PROGRESS] Completed frame*”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.[PROGRESS] TURTLE rendering frame 100.00.”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.Render complete.”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “[PROGRESS] Percentage of rendering done: (.)"
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex ".[PROGRESS] TURTLE rendering frame ([0-9]+.[0-9]+).*”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.*RIMG : +([0-9]+)%”
0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows with titles matching regex “.entry point.”
0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows with titles matching regex “.Entry Point.”
0: INFO: About: Maya Cmd Plugin for Deadline
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Stdout Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Popup Handling Enabled: True
0: INFO: Using Process Tree: True
0: INFO: Hiding DOS Window: True
0: INFO: Creating New Console: False
0: INFO: Not enforcing a build of Maya
0: INFO: Render Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2010\bin\Render.exe”
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in RenderArgument(): GetBooleanConfigEntry: Could not parse value for key LocalRendering into a boolean because GetConfigEntry: Script accessed non-existent config key LocalRendering (FranticX.Processes.ManagedProcessAbort) (Deadline.Plugins.RenderPluginException)

at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage)

Error Type
RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

Thanks again for the help.

[anon19604785]

Nevermind, we figured it out. When we updated our repository was installed somewhere else.