Hi
I am using MAx Design 2013 with latest krakatoa build when I send my pflow for partitioning via Deadline (5.2.0.49424) I am getting this error.
Exception during render: An error occurred in RenderTasks(): RenderTask: Unexpected exception (Exception caught in 3ds max: – Unknown property: “LoadFilePartition” in $Random Walk 001
If I remove the random walk I get this error.
The process cannot access the file ‘C:\Users\renderer\AppData\Local\Temp\lightning_startup.ms’ because it is being used by another process.
Not sure about the LoadFilePartition error. You’ll probably have to post about it on the Krakatoa forum.
However, the lightning_startup.ms access issue is a known issue that recently came to our attention. Deadline uses this file when starting up 3dsmax to initialize a few things, and up until 3dsmax 2013, this worked fine when multiple versions of 3dsmax were running (which is often the case then doing Krakatoa partitions). However, for some reason, 3dsmax 2013 locks this file, which prevents us from writing to it for other instances of 3dsmax 2013.
This issue has already been addressed in the beta version of Deadline 6 (we use environment variables instead of the lightning_startup.ms file). The beta is still open, so you can email beta@thinkboxsoftware.com if you want early access to it.
Cheers,
I guess if solve the random walk one then i would have the second issue anyway. I think I will just wait till it gets sorted.