mentray proxy path problem

Deadline
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Hi all，when I render mentray proxy file on the mixed renderFarm，I found the path was not swapped.
My workstation is win7,I create a simple object, then use mentray proxy file(*.mi).
The slaves with win7 work well, the Linux failed the Job.
Can deadline swap the path in proxy file?

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Did you set up your path mappings in Deadline?
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … Path_Setup

If so, can you send us the log from the job where the path was not swapped? Also, if you could include screenshots of your current path mapping settings, that would help too. We can use this information to try and figure out why the path isn’t getting swapped.

Thanks!

  • Ryan
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I will upload the files tomorrow, now it’s late and I’m home.
this is what I do.

  1. create a tree in Maya with texture.
  2. export the tree as Mentray proxy format tree.mi (later I opened the .mi file in padnote,and found the absolute path Y:\Lighting\env\leaf.tga )
  3. create a box (box.mb)in Maya, then use the tree.mi as proxy.
  4. submit the box.mb to renderFarm.
  5. the result was not right, I got a black tree,no texture.(leaf.tga not found).
  6. I check slave’s log, found the message “mentray api error: can’t open Y:\Lighting\env\leaf.tga (no such file or dir)”

The box.mb has same location with tree.mi , Y:\Lighting\working
Y: is a mapped to a floder, and swapped to \mnt***_project
The path of box.mb and tree.mi are swapped well, but the path in tree.mi not.
I guess Deadline can’t detect the path in proxy file(tree.mi) and swap it for Mentray.

The information may help.
Thanks !

Bill

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Hi Bill,

Ah, that explains it. Deadline doesn’t swap paths that are inside the .mi file, it just swaps the path to the .mi file itself. Are you able to use relative paths for the textures? Theoretically, that should solve the problem.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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I export the Mentray proxy file on Linux, and test it on RenderFarm.
it works, the textures are found.

Cheers

  • Bill