HOW TO SUBMIT MENTAL RAY TO DEADLINE???

Deadline
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Hello, im sorry guys but i have read a bit about setting mental ray for deadline and I just dont get it.
Can someone tell us a step by step on setting a mental ray render on deadline?
I have my zzz.mb file on maya read for mental ray.
I go to mental ray export job
what do i put on OUTPUT FILE?
and whats that EXPORT SETTIGS? (i dont know much about .mi files)
and in MENTAL RAY RENDER JOB
frame offset, my scene starts to render on frame 730. Do i put 730 there?? leave it blank?

thanks for the help!! i just couldnt get to submit the job using mental ray

ALL THE BEST AND GOOD VIBES,

FERNANDO MACEDO
www.digitalspirit.com.br

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Hi Fernando,

Are you trying to export a Maya file to .mi files and then render them with Mental Ray standalone on your farm, or are you simply trying to render with Mental Ray for Maya on your farm? Let us know and we can go from there.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Hello Ryan :slight_smile:

simply trying to render with Mental Ray for Maya on your farm, just as if i had my maya scene opened, and set it to render normally with mental ray, isntead now i want the whole farm to do it :slight_smile:

Thanks for the help!

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Thanks for clarifying! In that case, you would just submit a normal Maya render job (as opposed to setting up a mental ray export job and dealing with .mi files). During submission, Deadline will detect which renderer the Maya scene is configured to use, and will pass the appropriate info to Maya on the slaves so that they render with Mental Ray for Maya.

One thing to note is that Mental Ray for Maya rendering is not free, so you will need to have licensed copies of Maya on your render nodes. Otherwise, you’ll run into the “Error: (Mayatomr) : could not get a license” error (see error 1.1):
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