Maya 2008/mental ray jobs really slow.

Deadline
1

Never had this problem before with deadline, and individual renders are fast at about 1 minute, but when we’re running through deadline it takes almost 30 minutes for each frame. Ideas?

2

In the the Maya plugin configuration, try setting RenderToNetworkDrive

to false. This forces Maya to render the output images locally, and then

Deadline copies them to their network location on completion. This has

been known to speed up Maya renders.



To access the Maya plugin configuration options, open the Monitor, enter

Super User Mode, then select Tools -> Configure Plugins and select Maya

from the list on the left.



Cheers,