one second tasks, again

[mobius]

Hi everybody,

this is something that didn’t happen for a while now, i send a 3ds max job to Deadline it’s starts to render, than after a second it marks the tasks as completed but nothing was rendered or saved.
As i said we had this Problem once at the beginning of the v6 Beta but it just disappeared after a while, i assume with some upgrade versions. Now with v6.1 it happens again.

does that sound familiar to someone here?

BTW it’s not the case with all jobs.

[rrussell]

Hmm, I don’t recall ever seeing this problem with max jobs before. If you could send us a log from a task where this happened, that would be great!

Thanks!

• Ryan

[mobius]

strangly the Log files for those jobs are shorter than usual:

here is one:

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Log

0: Task timeout is disabled.
0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 2728
0: INFO: Render Tasks called
0: INFO: STARTED
0: INFO: Lightning: Render frame 2728
0: INFO: Lightning: Overriding save file option to 0
0: INFO: Lightning: Rendering frame P:\2013\GEA\svg13_099 GEA T-Smart Scheibenventil Animation\Renderoutput\GEATSS_010_Szene01\GEATSS_010-020-Toonshader_v1\GEATSS_010-020-Toonshader_v1_2728.png
0: INFO: Lightning: Rendering 0 render elements
0: INFO: Lightning: Setting up render parameters
0: INFO: Lightning: Rendering camera node Camera_Ventilgesamt
0: INFO: Lightning: Checking multipass info for frame 2728
0: INFO: Lightning: Opening renderer
0: INFO: Lightning: Multipass disabled
0: INFO: Lightning: Rendering 1 passes
0: INFO: Lightning: Checking output paths
0: INFO: Lightning: Checking default actions
0: INFO: Lightning: TYPE_MISSING_EXTERNAL_FILES = IGNORE
0: INFO: Lightning: TYPE_MISSING_UVWS = IGNORE
0: INFO: Lightning: TYPE_MISSING_DLL_FILES = FAIL
0: INFO: Lightning: TYPE_MISSING_XREF_FILES = IGNORE
0: INFO: Lightning: Calling renderer
0: INFO: Loading Map Files
0: INFO: Preparing Objects
0: INFO: Computing Antialiasing Filter
0: INFO: Preparing Lights
0: INFO: Rendering Reflect/Refract Maps
0: INFO:
0: INFO: Clipping Objects
0: INFO: Transforming Objects
0: INFO: Lightning: CallCurRendererRenderFrame returned code 1
0: INFO: Lightning: Render done
0: INFO: Lightning: Checking render elements

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Details

Date: 09/06/2013 18:21:21
Frames: 2728
Job Submit Date: 09/06/2013 14:58:19
Job User: jdechent
Slave Name: RENDER30
Slave Version: v6.1.0.52433 R

[rrussell]

Thanks for the log! This line indicates that the “save file” option in your max render settings is disabled:

Overriding save file option to 0

Can you double check the scene file in max to see if the “Save File” option is enabled in the max render settings?

Thanks!

• Ryan