vray4maya + renderLayers

Deadline
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Hi,
I’m testing the vray for maya 2.0 demo with deadline 4.1sp1,
and when i submit the job (mayaCmd) i’m getting a 208 Exit Error - "0: STDOUT: Cannot open renderer description file “vrayRenderer.xml” "
when i do a manually maya batch( render -r vray -rl blabla etc…etc… ) it’s all okay. Deadline submission without “submit renderlayers as a separate job” checked + vray works okay.

anyone know how to solve this? thx.

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Interesting. I wonder what the differences are between the command line switches supplied. Can you post the render logs without layers and with layers?

The lines I’m looking for start with:
0: info: Render Executable:
0: info: Render Argument: -a bunch -of switches

Those two lines will show how Maya’s being called in the two cases and we can compare them side by side.
The vrayRenderer.xml file is internal to VRay, and we don’t touch it. Another client was having some trouble with one of the beta updates for Maya. That was 2.5 nightly build.

Do you have the following file?
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya\bin\rendererDesc\vrayRenderer.xml

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A couple of questions:

  1. When you test the manual command line render with render.exe, are you testing this on the slave(s) that report the “vrayRenderer.xml” error? Just want to make sure you’re not just testing this on your local workstation. :slight_smile:
  2. Have you tried rebooting the render nodes that you installed vray for maya on? Maybe there is an environment variable or something that Deadline isn’t recognizing yet, and a reboot is the easiest way to ensure everything is “refreshed”.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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hi eamsler and rrussell,
as soon i get back to my computer i post the logs.

As far i detect the Maya CmdLine is called the same way( by me in a python subprocess script and by the deadline )…i believe that i had copy from the slave log the flags to try to detect the error.

i do not have vrayRenderer.xml in the same location as you mentioned, because i installed vray in a network folder( following this guide spot3d.com/vray/help/maya/15 … om_dir.htm ) and created a maya.env file with the variabels needed. I’m testing in 2 computers, all 2 have(in maya) access to that network plugin, a local Batch Render works just okay so i think vray is proper installed.

I don’t have access to the nightly builds yet, but in the next week(i’m in the buying process) i will have.

and yes rrussell i’m had done the CmdLine Render in the same slave that deadline give’s me error.
and yes, i restart the slave machine during my tests( repository not ).

I had read in the chaosgroup forum that another guy had the same problem( a vrayRenderer.xml error) and it was some popup blocker name in mayacmd.py … it can be?

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hi, here is the log:
logs.txt (2.02 KB)

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Thanks for the log! Can you go to a slave that reported this error, open a command (dos) prompt, and then run this command:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\bin\Render.exe" -r vray  -threads 0 -x 600 -y 450 -rl BEAUTY  -s 50 -e 50 -b 1 -rd "//192.168.1.99/RenderFarm/Render/MAYA/tests/01_Maya/images" -im "<Scene>/<Camera>/<Layer>/file" -proj "//192.168.1.99/RenderFarm/Render/MAYA/tests/01_Maya"  "\\192.168.1.99\RenderFarm\Render\MAYA\008_Bepantol_Cegonha\03_3D\01_Maya\scenes\Users\mbort\testeScene.mb"

This is the exact command that Deadline is running. Do this instead of running it from a python subprocess, just in case it makes a difference.

Thanks!

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yeap russell…did not work and i had the same error as deadline gave me.
didn’t know that it was different…thx…i will try to go after that.

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Thanks for testing that. At least we’ve ruled out Deadline as the source of the problem. :slight_smile:

I wonder if perhaps the environment just isn’t being setup properly. Maybe maya.env isn’t being loaded by the command line renderer…