Maya2008, renderman for maya problem

Deadline
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Hi,



I have a problem when trying to render any maya 2008 scene with renderman for maya, I have the exact same setup on another pc and it works fine but for some reason it doesnt work this this one…I guess this is what happens:



: Loaded job: Untitled (00j_100_o_1ad9775d)

0: INFO: Script plugin for Deadline 2.7.29178, built Aug 22 2007 14:02:42 R

0: INFO: >> Maya Renderer for Deadline, 2004-10-09

0: INFO: job file: c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\00j_100_o_1ad9775d.job

0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 3

0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows matching “.entry point.”

0: INFO: Ignoring popup windows matching “.Entry Point.”

0: INFO: Rendering to network drive…

0: INFO: Rendering with Maya 2008

0: INFO: Rendering with Renderman for Maya.

0: INFO: Enforcing 32 bit build of Maya

0: INFO: Enforcing 32 bit build of Maya

0: INFO: Executable: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin\Render.exe”

0: INFO: Arguments: " -r rman -pad 4 -s 3 -e 3 -b 1 -rd “C:/Documents and Settings/Work/Desktop/Renderfiles/” -proj “C:/Documents and Settings/Work/My Documents/maya/projects/Smile Short Film/” “c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\Shot02_Environment_Render.mb”"

0: INFO: StartupDir: “C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2008\bin”

0: INFO: UseJobObject: true

0: INFO: HideDosWindow: true

0: STDOUT: Cannot open renderer description file “rmanRenderer.xml”

0: INFO: Process return code: 208

Scheduler Thread - Render Thread 0 threw an error:

Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: Renderer returned non-zero error code, 208



Can anybody shed light on how I could fix this?



Thanks in advance



Semir

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Hi Semir,



Do you have Renderman for Maya installed on that other machine? I find

that if you tell Maya to render with a renderer it doesn’t recognize, it

complains that it can’t find the renderer description file -

“rmanRenderer.xml” in this case. For example, if you try to run

“render.exe -r dummy test.mb” from the command prompt, it will print out

the error: Cannot open renderer description file “dummyRenderer.xml”.



If you do have Renderman for Maya installed on that machine, then it

looks like Maya isn’t detecting it and loading the plugin when it starts

up. You may have to tweak your environment variables on the machine, or

try reinstalling Renderman for Maya. After doing so, you should restart

the slave machine so that Deadline is refreshed with the new environment

variables.



Cheers,

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Excellent, I reinstalled renderman for maya and it all works now. Thanks alot for ur help



Semir