Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has come across this, error.
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
This is quite strange.
I looked at the KrakatoaPartitionTasksOnDeadline.ms script which is run for partitioning on Deadline, and the only occurrence of this property is in the code
else if classOf operator == Birth_Particle_File then
(
du.LogMessage (" >Adjusting [" + operator.name + "]")
operator.LoadFilePartition = true
operator.FilePartitionPart = operator.FilePartitionPart + incrementValue
du.LogMessage (" +File Partition Part in Birth Particle File Operator [" + operator.name + "] adjusted by ["+ incrementValue as string +"] to [" + operator.FilePartitionPart as string + "].")
)
I believe that Birth_Particle_File was an old PFlow operator that supported the loading of individual partitions from disk (before we switched to using a PRT Loader in Krakatoa_PRT_Birth), so there is no reason for your Random Walk to ever pass this classof() test.
If you type in the MAXScript Listener while in the Random Walk scene
classof $Random_Walk_001what does it say in the Listener?
In Max 2014 where I have Data Operators, I get PresetOperIcon as the result, which is clearly not the same as Birth_Particle_File.
We will need to look deeper into what is going on there.
Does the scene works correctly when partitioning locally? The local partitioning runs the SAME code to set the random seeds, so I would expect it to cause the same error. Please let me know if it does…
Hi yes , it works when I partition locally, although I just did the first 50 frames
It says “Data_Iconhelper” when i do classof.
Yeah, that was the old class name.
I almost suspect there is something else going wrong (in addition to your lightning.dlx problem).
We could add some more debug print lines inside the Deadline script for partitioning to see what it does and why it complains.
Just started the move to 2014 today. If it works is 2014 then that would be cool.
Any luck with the cause of this error?
That error made no sense from the very beginning. Is it doing the same in Max 2014?
Can you send a SIMPLE self-contained scene that, if submitted to Deadline, replicates the problem? (does not have to be the one you are currently working on).
Strange I could not replicate the issue even though I was able to the last time. I still get this error. but not the one regarding random walk.
The process cannot access the file ‘C:\Users\renderer\AppData\Local\Temp\lightning_startup.ms’ because it is being used by another process.
I did not notice that the plugins have been released for 2014 , is it just the case of copying over the 2013 plugins to 2014?
Oh right, Max 2014 is supported only by Deadline 6.
You have to be on the Beta to access it, but it is getting close to release. Hopefully this month.