Maya 2011 hotfix3 Vray 1.5sp1

Deadline
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Getting a error when rendering. The render nodes are rendering fine but im getting an error on a workstation. The rendernodes are win XP and the 1 workstation is win7. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Error Message
Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in CheckExitCode(): Renderer returned non-zero error code 1. Check the renderer’s output.
at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage)

Slave Log
leted" will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “[PROGRESS] ([0-9]+) percent” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any stdout that matches the regular expression “([0-9]+)%” will be handled as appropriate
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “.entry point.” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “.Entry Point.” will be ignored
0: INFO: Any popup windows with titles matching the regular expression “.Render history settings.” will be ignored
0: INFO: About: Maya Cmd Plugin for Deadline
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 1
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: Enforcing 64 bit build of Maya
0: INFO: Render Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\Render.exe”
0: INFO: Rendering to network drive
0: INFO: Rendering with Maya version 2011.0
0: INFO: Rendering with VRay.
0: INFO: Render Argument: -r vray -x 1000 -y 562 -s 1 -e 1 -b 1 -rd “//MOKFS/AUDI_S5/Footage/Renders/Sh01/Car/CarBlur01” -im “CarBlur_v01_” -cam “cameraShape2” -proj “//mokfs/AUDI_S5/3d/maya” “C:\Users\carl\AppData\Local\Prime Focus\Deadline\slave\jobsData\sh01_v01_car_blur.mb”
0: INFO: Startup Directory: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin”
0: INFO: Process Priority: BelowNormal
0: INFO: Process is now running
0: STDOUT: Starting “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\mayabatch.exe”
0: STDOUT: // Maya exited with status 1
0: INFO: Process exit code: 1
Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:
Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): Error in CheckExitCode(): Renderer returned non-zero error code 1. Check the renderer’s output.

at Deadline.Plugins.ScriptPlugin.RenderTasks(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage)

Error Type
RenderPluginException

Error Stack Trace
at Deadline.Plugins.Plugin.RenderTask(Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame)
at Deadline.Slaves.SlaveRenderThread.RenderCurrentTask()

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Maya just seems to by dying here, but there are no error messages to indicate why. Deadline just appears to be the messenger here, and the fact that it works on the render nodes would seem to indicate that the problem is with this machine specifically (and not so much a general problem with Deadline). It’s hard to say if the problem is OS-specific though.

I guess the first thing we should do is to try and rule out Deadline being the cause of the problem. First, copy sh01_v01_car_blur.mb to this workstation (let’s assume you copy it to c:\temp\sh01_v01_car_blur.mb). Then open a command prompt and run this command:

“C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\Render.exe” -r vray -x 1000 -y 562 -s 1 -e 1 -b 1 -rd “//MOKFS/AUDI_S5/Footage/Renders/Sh01/Car/CarBlur01” -im “CarBlur_v01_” -cam “cameraShape2” -proj “//mokfs/AUDI_S5/3d/maya” “c:\temp\sh01_v01_car_blur.mb”

This is essentially what Deadline is doing, so it would be interesting to see if you get the same result when Deadline is not involved.

Cheers,

  • Ryan