Hi!
We submitted a Mantra-ifd-File via deadline to our renderfarm an ran into the following error:

2017-07-26 12:02:11: 0: STDOUT: [12:02:10] mantra: Unable to load texture ‘op:/obj/skylight1/sky_env_net/sky_env_map’

the “sky_env_map” is an procedurally generate map in houdini and is not existing as real image file

if we start the Mantra-ifd-File render on each render client locally it works like a charm

so we came to the coclusion that the deadline render manager is generating the error via the submission process.

please find the error log and houdini file plus the ifd file attached in 2 zips

thanks for your help and best regards

christian
error_code.txt (14.8 KB)
test.zip (1.29 MB)

I think we might have to extend your path mapping a little bit. Even if that file is to blame, it’s corrupting all sorts of things in your scene data if you check out the path mapping messages:

2017-07-26 12:02:08:  0: CheckPathMapping: Swapped "M^8G_YY8=SD=AN1(5.\BM/5Y1IL11SJL/Y:/[6R6F<7YU,!]/7BO1DG.$Q^FO
2017-07-26 12:02:08:  0: " with "M^8G_YY8=SD=AN1(5.\BM/5Y1IL11SJL//Volumes/Spycer-03/[6R6F<7YU,!]/7BO1DG.$Q^FO

2017-07-26 12:02:08:  0: CheckPathMapping: Swapped "M8I'11G:XRD6)GQ:-TZEGR#H>YKV,P\GCY*`//+0Y)J"LG&RKY:/W22*RC*AG
2017-07-26 12:02:08:  0: " with "M8I'11G:XRD6)GQ:-TZEGR#H>YKV,P\GCY*`//+0Y)J"LG&RK/Volumes/Spycer-03/W22*RC*AG

...and so on...

It seems that the “Y:” mapping is what the binary data is matching on here. It’s just steam rolling it since the mapping is just three characters.

Can we fix that and see if it makes any difference and move on from there?