max 7 and deadline error

Deadline
1

Hello there. I've been getting alot of these errors on our Dual Quad core (8 core) renderfarms running on xp64 and some on regular xp32.

I have no idea whats wrong. Thanks in advance for the help.

- Dickson

Error Message
Could not retrieve the version of 3ds max from C:\3dsmax7\core.dll


Slave Log
on.Cause: JobError (2)
Exception.TargetSite: Void StartJob(System.String[])
Exception.Source: DeadlinePluginLoader
Exception.StackTrace:
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.StartJob(String[] auxiliaryFilenames)
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.StartJob(String jobUniqueName, String[] auxiliaryFileNames)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
---- January 29 2007 -- 05:33 PM ----
Scheduler Thread - Plugin loaded in 0 seconds.
0: Loaded job: target_main_gi_02 (000_050_o_3de2bba7)
0: INFO: job file: c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\000_050_o_3de2bba7.job
0: INFO: Not forcing a version of Max
0: INFO: Verifying installation of 3ds max 7 at "C:\3dsmax7"
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Could not retrieve the version of 3ds max from C:\3dsmax7\core.dll
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exception Details
RenderPluginException -- Could not retrieve the version of 3ds max from C:\3dsmax7\core.dll
RenderPluginException.Cause: JobError (2)
Exception.TargetSite: Void StartJob(System.String[])
Exception.Source: DeadlinePluginLoader
Exception.StackTrace:
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.StartJob(String[] auxiliaryFilenames)
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.StartJob(String jobUniqueName, String[] auxiliaryFileNames)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
---- January 29 2007 -- 05:58 PM ----
Scheduler Thread - Plugin loaded in 0 seconds.
0: Loaded job: coke_checker_c05 (005_050_o_4fb34b1c)
0: INFO: job file: c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\005_050_o_4fb34b1c.job
0: INFO: Not forcing a version of Max
0: INFO: Verifying installation of 3ds max 7 at "C:\3dsmax7"
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Could not retrieve the version of 3ds max from C:\3dsmax7\core.dll


Error Type
RenderPluginException


Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.PluginLoader.StartJob(String[] auxiliaryFilenames)
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.StartJob(String jobUniqueName, String[] auxiliaryFileNames)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()
2

Odds are, that problem is related to a bug we’ve just recently fixed in

the 3dsmax plugin. We hope to release the patch for this fix later this

week.



Cheers,

3

Ryan,



Thanks for the prompt response. What do you suggest we do to get around

this in the meantime? This is causing major issues on our farm and is

really affecting our production at the moment.



Dickson Chow

Brand New School

htp://www.brandnewschool.com





Frantic_Deadline Listmanager wrote:

From: “Ryan Russell” (rrussell@franticfilms.com

mailto:rrussell@franticfilms.com)



Odds are, that problem is related to a bug we’ve just recently fixed in

the 3dsmax plugin. We hope to release the patch for this fix later this

week.



Cheers,

4

Try using the 3dsmaxCmd plugin. It just uses the 3dsmax command line

rendering tool to handle the rendering (our other plugin hooks directly

into the Max API). Information on installing and using the plugin can be

found here:

http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx?page=deadline/3dsmaxCmd



It’s not as fully features as our other plugin, but hopefully it can get

you by for now.



Cheers,

5

Ryan,

Thanks we’ll give it a go. We await your release of the patch.



Thanks again


  • Dickson



    Frantic_Deadline Listmanager wrote:

From: “Ryan Russell” (rrussell@franticfilms.com

mailto:rrussell@franticfilms.com)



Try using the 3dsmaxCmd plugin. It just uses the 3dsmax command line

rendering tool to handle the rendering (our other plugin hooks directly

into the Max API). Information on installing and using the plugin can be

found here:

http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx?page=deadline/3dsmaxCmd



It’s not as fully features as our other plugin, but hopefully it can get

you by for now.



Cheers,

6

Ryan,



The method you suggested works great. Thanks again. Please keep me

updated on the patch.


  • Dickson



    Frantic_Deadline Listmanager wrote:

From: “dickson c” (dickson@brandnewschool.com

mailto:dickson@brandnewschool.com)



Ryan,

Thanks we’ll give it a go. We await your release of the patch.



Thanks again


  • Dickson



    Frantic_Deadline Listmanager wrote:

From: “Ryan Russell” (rrussell@franticfilms.com

)



Try using the 3dsmaxCmd plugin. It just uses the 3dsmax command line

rendering tool to handle the rendering (our other plugin hooks directly

into the Max API). Information on installing and using the plugin can be

found here:

http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx?page=deadline/3dsmaxCmd



It’s not as fully features as our other plugin, but hopefully it can get

you by for now.



Cheers,

7

Just wondering if theres a patch yet.

8

Not yet. Just double checking some things. SHOULD be released this week.



Cheers,