Hi All,
We’ve installed Deadline 3.1 on our 12 node render farm and have been doing test renders through lightwave. I was able to render a scene from my local machine but the other users have been unable to complete a render.
Specifics:
(12) 64 bit render slaves on windows XP
Rendering 32 bit lightwave v9 scene files.
All the lightwave scene files point to an executable (with associated plugins) on a shared drive. Sometimes they can find the plugins and sometimes they can’t (which will kill the job). We tried rendering with screamernet option turned off. We just tried rendering a very simple cube and plane and got the job report below. It says the frame was completed but no frame was output. Can you check out the job report and let me know if you see anything unusual (i.e. “bad magic number?”)
Thanks,
Dan
0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Loaded job: lmm_lw_render_test (999_050_999_267c5148)
0: INFO: StartJob: initializing script plugin Lightwave
0: INFO: About: Lightwave Plugin for Deadline
0: INFO: Not enforcing a build of Lightwave 9.0
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
0: INFO: Handling popup windows with titles matching regex “.Unable To Locate.” by pressing “OK”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “Error:(.)"
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex "Can’t find "(.)?”…"
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “Can’t open scene file.”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “.bad magic number.”
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex "(Rendering frame [0-9]+). pass ([0-9]+)[^0-9]+([0-9]+)."
0: INFO: Handling stdout that matches regex “Frame completed”
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: Render Executable: “\sfosb066\BSII_RD\avvr\lw9n\Prog\lwsn.exe”
0: INFO: Render Argument: -3 -c"V:/lw8n/config" -d"V:/Projects/Pueblo_Revisited/Lightwave" “C:\Documents and Settings\djrutter\Local Settings\Temp\deadline_render_test.lws” 1 1
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “\sfosb066\BSII_RD\avvr\lw9n\Prog”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: LightWave x86 ScreamerNet Module (Build 998)
0: STDOUT: CPU number: 172
0: STDOUT:
0: STDOUT: sendack: Initializing
0: STDOUT: x86
0: STDOUT: Current directory is now “V:/Projects/Pueblo_Revisited/Lightwave”.
0: STDOUT: Loading “C:\Documents and Settings\djrutter\Local Settings\Temp\deadline_render_test.lws”.
0: STDOUT: Clearing scene
0: STDOUT: Loading settings
0: STDOUT: Loading “objects/deadline_render_test.lwo”
0: STDOUT: Loading plug-in
0: STDOUT: Validating scene
0: STDOUT: Preparing “objects/deadline_render_test.lwo”
0: STDOUT: Scene loaded.
0: STDOUT: Allocating frame buffers.
0: STDOUT: Allocating segment buffers.
0: STDOUT: Updating geometry.
0: STDOUT: Moving deadline_render_test.
0: STDOUT: Transforming coordinates.
0: STDOUT: Removing hidden polygons.
0: STDOUT: Sorting polygons.
0: STDOUT: Rendering frame 1, segment 1/1, pass 1/1.
0: STDOUT: Rendering opaque polygons.
0: STDOUT: Integrating pixels.
0: STDOUT: Frame completed.
0: STDOUT: Last Frame Rendered: 1.
0: STDOUT: Rendering Time: 0.2 seconds.
0: STDOUT: Freeing segment buffers.
0: STDOUT: Freeing frame buffers.
0: INFO: Process exit code: 0