maya 2009?

Deadline
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Heya, you know this was coming…

Maya 2009 support please? I’m gonna have a bash at hacking Maya.dlinit and Maya.param, as they seem to be the only 2 files that make mention of maya paths, but I’m sure an official update would be the Most Correct Way of doing things.

-matt

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The maintenance release of Deadline 3.0, which is scheduled to be released this week, will include support for Maya 2009. If you want to add Maya 2009 support to an older version, modifying the Maya.dlinit and Maya.param files is the way to go. If you’re running Deadline 2.7 and you’ve applied the plugin patch which is available on our downloads page, then you can just copy the Maya 2008 entries in these files and change them to 2009.

franticfilms.com/software/pr … /download/

If you have any specific questions or run into any problems, let us know.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Ok, added those entries and restarted the slaves+monitor, and I could now submit jobs from 2009.

Didn’t have much time to test, but ran one of our example scenes on the farm, didn’t render correctly. Mentalray scene with a physical sun, looked fine within the maya viewport, but seemed as if deadline rendered with maya software renderer instead.

The render logs don’t flag any major errors, few warnings when importing our extra mentalray shaders (the 2009 gui generates the same warnings on startup), but the actual frame-render stats also look like the maya ones, not the mentalray ones.

Will do some more tests today when/if I get time, damn these deadlines (time ones, not frantic film ones!)

-matt

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Ah, found the problem with 2.7, its IntMayaVersion within SubmitMayaToDeadline.mel. It’s runs a special case to swap the version number ‘9’ when it sees ‘2008’, obviously it now needs to replace ‘10’ when it finds ‘2009’. So I added:

	if( startString( $version, 4 ) == "2009" )
        return 10;

Rendering seems to be going ok now, will continue testing with all the fancy new 2009 features…

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Cool, glad you were able to figure it out. The version checking in the 3.0 submission script is a lot better. :slight_smile:

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heh, cool, waiting on that reply from Deirdre… :slight_smile: