Deadline Redshift Standalone on AWS render output issue

the saga continuous… Only the first frame of a ‘frames per task’ (dl_chuck_size) actually renders… the ones ‘suspended’ in the screen shot all errored out with a:

"2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: Loading: C:\Cloutput\_assets\RS_playground\CGI\cam1\rs\cam1_v0000_0001.rs
2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: ======================================================================================================
2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: ASSERT FAILED
2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: File Common\File.cpp
2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: Line 1956
2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: CFile::Write() for file 'C:\Cloutput\_assets\RS_playground\CGI\cam1\rs\cam1_v0000_0001.rs' failed to write to file. Error: 5
2018-09-11 12:33:04:  0: STDOUT: ======================================================================================================

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This is part of a 2 stage submit… I submit this as a ‘don’t export RS locally’ job using the deadliine ROP which means it automatically ends up as 2 jobs in deadline, first one generates the rs files, the second job does the actual rendering using the rs files.

Ideally I want the rs generation job to be done as one big task so Houdini isn’t restarted for every frame but then only the first frame will render without errors. But RS need to be task-chucked to it can go to multiple slaves. Would be nice if there was a way to set the options for those two jobs separately.

A solution for the screenshot error would be to set the chuck_size to 1 but then Houdini is restarted for every frame which is slow and if you have non-cached simulations each frame would have to recalculate from 0 so that’s a no-go unfortunately.

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So far I had to modify AWS Linux instances, hack around in a various of python scripts and now this. I don’t mind tweaking things a bit but by the looks of it I’m the first guy beta testing the Houdini+RS workflow using AWS portal.

And I haven’t event tried scenes with actual assets like textures yet and still have to make the RS on-demand licensing work… I hope that part works a bit smoother.

So any clues on how to make redshift render all frames?

edit: to clarify, the RS file generation job goes fine, the actual rendering job using those RS files results in what’s shown in the screenshot.