Maya ascii files not supported?

Deadline
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I have attempted to send a .ma file to the farm to render however have been getting errors.
If i resave as maya binary but leave the references as .ma it also returns arrors
however if i save as maya binary and collapse all the references pointing to ascii files it will render.

any information is appreciated,

Mike

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The way that Deadline does path mapping it’s not able to map paths in referenced files. So that’s why flattening the file works. In addition to that, .mb files are pathmapped differently which will sometimes work where ma files don’t.

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