Hello
We were pushed into a situation where we had to render some Maya 2015 images (MentalRay) on our Deadline 5 farm. We edited the scripts/MayaSubmission.py, plugins/MayaBatch/MayaBatch.dlinit and plugins/MayaBatch/MayaBatch.param to allow a Maya 2015 submission and point to the Maya 2015 application.
To our surprise it worked fine and we ran out a few images just in time. We have just tried to render out a few more and now we are experiencing errors. Curiously we can’t think of anything which has changed except for the scenes, which may be where the problem is we don’t yet know.
Looking at the logs it appears that Mental Ray loaded successfully and was ready to go. There was a warning because of the old “-renderType” flag and then it reported: Scheduler Thread - Cancelling task because it’s job could not be found, it was likely deleted.
Further testing found that if we first launch Maya on the Slave (which we did out of habit on the first successful 2015 renders) and have it running and then submit a job to the Mac Slave, running Maya, it renders fine!
We had this with Maya 2014 and it continues with Maya 2015 (SP5).
Any thoughts very welcome.
Thanks
Chris