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Vray 6 issue with Maya 2020

Hello

Im trying to use our 16 renderfarm machines with Maya 2020 after installing v-ray 6 on them.

2 of the render machines working just fine but the rest are just fails with the following error message :

Error: FailRenderException : V-Ray error: Extra attributes file “C:\Golaem\Golaem-7.3.7-Maya2020\shaders\vray*_attributes.txt” was not found.

The blades are identical in all parts ev2the installed apps and plugs ins. However, I can’t find the cause of the issue.

Is there any suggestions how should I start to get this fixed?

Looking at the error here, it seems like V-Ray is not able to find the Extra attributes file “vray*_attributes.txt”, and Deadline failed the render on it. I believe it an issue coming from V-Ray, but we should isolate the submission from Deadline and render outside Deadline on the node it fails the render. Here is documentation on troubleshooting this issue: Troubleshooting — Deadline 10.2.0.10 documentation

i have tried to follow up with this documents but i didn’t get any luck with it . i can assure that any worker can run the render the project locally with out any issue . on the render farm side , two machines with the same setup and plugins has a different render result .

what is the main difference between this log and others for working nodes is the coming lines :

> on working nodes:

023-02-16 20:51:19: 0: STDOUT: Force loading Maya plugins
2023-02-16 20:51:19: 0: STDOUT: Loading AbcImport…AbcImport v1.0 using Alembic 1.7.5 (built Feb 6 2018 18:28:08)
2023-02-16 20:51:19: 0: STDOUT: ok
2023-02-16 20:51:19: 0: STDOUT: Loading fbxmaya…ok
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/16|20:51:20] V-Ray: V-Ray 6 for Maya, hotfix 1 version 6.00.03 from Dec 6 2022, 16:09:04
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/16|20:51:20] V-Ray: V-Ray core version is 6.00.21
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: Initializing V-Ray for Maya
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_bercon_special.dll
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_flakes2_translators.dll
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_geometry_translators.dll
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_texdirt_translator.dll
2023-02-16 20:51:20: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_uvwgen_bercon.dll
2023-02-16 20:51:24: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/16|20:51:23] V-Ray: Loading plugins from “C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/vrayplugins\vray_*.dll”
2023-02-16 20:51:24: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/16|20:51:24] V-Ray: 71 plugin(s) loaded successfully
2023-02-16 20:51:24: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/16|20:51:24] V-Ray: Finished loading plugins.

> on failed ones :

Force loading Maya plugins
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/17|15:28:52] V-Ray: V-Ray 6 for Maya, hotfix 1 version 6.00.03 from Dec 6 2022, 16:09:04
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [2023/Feb/17|15:28:52] V-Ray: V-Ray core version is 6.00.21
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: Initializing V-Ray for Maya
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_bercon_special.dll
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_flakes2_translators.dll
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_geometry_translators.dll
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_texdirt_translator.dll
2023-02-17 15:28:52: 0: STDOUT: [VMAYA PT] Loaded and initialized C:/Program Files/Chaos Group/V-Ray/Maya 2020 for x64/maya_vray/./translators/vraytr_uvwgen_bercon.dll
2023-02-17 15:28:55: 0: WARNING: V-Ray error: Extra attributes file “C:\Golaem\Golaem-7.3.7-Maya2020\shaders\vray*_attributes.txt” was not found.

Hi,

I have the same error, I asked Golaem support about it and it should be possible to set the MayaBatch.py to ignore this error and it should render fine, as they have done it elsewhere. Also Vray is aware of the issue and fixing it in the next build, but for now everyone that doesnt understand python that well is stuck with a failed render.

I am not a coder, so I would appreciate if you could explain me, apart from turning off “Strict Error Checking” from the deadline submitter in Maya, where and what can I specifically write on the Batch file to ignore this specific error.

Hello

I’m not a python coder too and it was really a hard thing to follow up with the instructions here.

However, if you have the exact same error:

“Error: FailRenderException : V-Ray error: Extra attributes file “C:\Golaem\Golaem-7.3.7-Maya2020\shaders\vray*_attributes.txt” was not found.”

Here is what I found later to fix it.

The issue was with the Maya environment path for the vray plugin. It is looking for some extra files in the golaem folder which is not there for some reason. So, you got two options

Either try to modify the environment path for Maya from the Maya script inside the software or delete the Maya folder located inside your documents folder.

For me, I didn’t use golaem anymore so I had to uninstall it first.

Give it a try and let me know what you get.

Thanks for the input.

Deleting the folder doesn´t do anything as the Maya environment file is empty and it just gets created again.

This doesn´t seem to be a golaem unique issue, as people with using other plugins have the same problem with Vray. I am not sure on how to edit that Environment path. Are you able to share some more light on that?

Taking a step back here and check did you isolate outside Deadline, did it give out the same error in Maya/V-Ray?

If yes, did you reachout to chaos group regarding this issue? I believe @Mahmoud referred to the Maya.env file that points to the plugins list. Here is the link from Maya Help.

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