paint fx render issues

Deadline
1

hi,



trying to render paint fx on deadline. getting this problem.



Exception during render: Error: Cannot find procedure “getStrokeUVFromPoly”.

This error was printed by Maya. If this error message is unavoidable but not fatal to your render, please email deadline-support@franticfilms.com with the error message, and change the plugin setting StrictErrorChecking to false.



any ideas what the problem is?

2

Hi Carl,



Try rendering the scene from a command line prompt on the same slave

machine that’s reporting the error. When the slave renders, it prints

out the render executable and command line arguments its using, which is

what you should try to use from the command prompt. If you get the same

error message, then we know the problem isn’t Deadline specific and

might be related to paint fx. If the render completes successfully with

no error message, try rebooting the slave machine and see if you

continue to have problems when rendering through Deadline.



Cheers,

3

i am too experiencing the same problem…

i tried the hints i found on highend3d and in your site…that is add source “getStrokes”

to the prerender mel scripts…at least that is the only place where i can put a script.



rendering via command line give the same error, but the render finish…so i think that deadline is hunging the render even if it would finish.

so is there a way to let this error pass over without stopping my render?



thanks

matteo

4

You could set strict error checking to false in the Maya plugin

configuration. You could also open the file

//your/repository/plugins/Maya/MayaErrorParsing.ffs and comment out

these two lines by placing “//” at the front of them:



if(StrFind(GetRegExMatch(0),"Error: Cannot find procedure ") >= 0)

ignore = false;



Cheers,

5

Hey everyone,



Another Maya user just ran into this problem with Maya 8.5. He mentioned

that there is a service pack for Maya 8.5 that makes this error

recoverable - the error message still appears, but it’s not fatal to the

render. After he installed the patch on one of his artist’s

workstations, they were able to render with paint fx without any issues.



Cheers,

6

hi,



Does anyone know if this this problem is still happening with Maya 2008?