hello 
i’m gettin a issue with modo that i still couldn’t sort yet.
modo 501sp1 and deadline 5
the thing is , when i submit a tle rendering job the slaves get the job but they “super fast” render it empty images.
i tryed different kinds of outputs but i don’t think this is the problem because it doesn’t even “try to render”
any clue on this?
the funny thing about it was that i could render the same scene under same circunstances but got a wrong stiching(only one of the tiles appeared)
when i tryed submiting it again it got the superfst blank rendering. also tryed to reboot the whole thing , didn’t help.
thank you very mutch for your support.and sorry about my bad english.
cheers
Rafael
Hi Rafael,
We have learned that if we pass the scene file to modo as a command line argument, and an error occurs while loading the scene, modo will just ignore it and end up rendering a “blank” scene. There are no error messages or anything else to indicate there was a problem.
In Deadline 5.1, we will be changing the modo plugin so that it loads the scene via a script command AFTER modo itself has loaded. This seems to help, as the script command will throw an error and the render will fail. The error itself might not always be helpful, but I guess that’s better than rendering “nothing” and marking it as successful.
To help diagnose your problem, can you open modo on one of the render nodes and try loading the same scene file? If it can’t load the file, or there are missing assets (another cause of the behavior you’re seeing), I believe modo will notify you of this.
Cheers,
I don’t know if this is your problem, but sounds familiar to an issue I figured out.
In my Modo testing, this issue seems to happen when you’re textures aren’t loading properly. Usually, because the machine can’t find the location of the file.
When this happens, I open the scene in modo on another computer, which usually exposes the image file it can’t find (ie, isn’t shared). Just repoint it to a shared directory and save, and resubmit.