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Problems with Lightwave 8.5

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#1

Hi,

I run into 2 problems with LW8.5

1.lwsn doesnt find config files. Path to configs is 100% correct. Just to make sure i tried LightNet with same path and it worked fine. There’s no such issue with lightwave 9.x, just 8.5 only

2. lwsn runs on one core only (maybe it’s related to first problem)



There’s short snippet from log file:

0: INFO: Starting Monitored Program: Lightwave0…

0: INFO: Handling popup windows matching “.Unable To Locate.” by hitting the “OK” button

0: INFO: Executable: “C:\LightWave_85\Programs\lwsn.exe”

0: INFO: Arguments: “-2 -cC:/LightWave_85/Config/ -dU:/TO_RESPOWER/Royalpine_Int/ c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\job0 c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\ack0”

0: INFO: StartupDir: “C:\LightWave_85\Programs”

0: INFO: UseJobObject: true

0: INFO: HideDosWindow: true

0: INFO: ControlStdout: true

0: INFO: ControlStdin: false

0: INFO: Sending init command…

0: STDOUT: LightWave x86 ScreamerNet Module (Build 831)

0: STDOUT: CPU number: 0

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: Current directory is now “U:/TO_RESPOWER/Royalpine_Int/”.

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: LightWave command: init.

0: INFO: Received response: Initializing

0: INFO: Sending wait command…

0: STDOUT: sendack: Initializing

0: STDOUT: x86

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: LightWave command: wait.

0: INFO: Received response: Ready

0: INFO: Sending load command…

0: STDOUT: sendack: Ready

…

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name multiFractal.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name turbNoise.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name turbNoise.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name heteroTerrain.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name multiFractal.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name turbNoise.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name turbNoise.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type TextureHandler found with name heteroTerrain.

…

and so on





-cC:/LightWave_85/Config/ - doesn’t have quotation marks because i tried to submit scene as 7.x version (pointing to v8.5 lwsn.exe) to see if these are source of problem.

#2

Hi Nikita,



Try submitting a lightwave 8.5 job with the “User ScreamerNet Rendering”

option unchecked to see if that makes a difference. This will use

lwsn.exe as a simple command line renderer, instead of starting it up in

server mode. If you still get the same error, please post the log.



Thanks!

#3

There’s log with “Use ScreamerNet Rendering” unchecked. It doesn’t make difference.

Mysterious problem :slight_smile:



Scheduler Thread - Plugin loaded in 0 seconds.

FREE MODE: Repository has less than two slaves - no license required.

0: Loaded job: Untitled (00i_050_o_341164b4)

0: INFO: Script plugin for Deadline 2.7.29178, built Aug 22 2007 14:02:42 R

0: INFO: >> Lightwave ScreamerNet Plugin for Deadline

0: INFO: job file: c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\00i_050_o_341164b4.job

0: Plugin rendering frame(s): 5

0: INFO: Handling popup windows matching “.Unable To Locate.” by hitting the “OK” button

0: INFO: Not enforcing a build of Lightwave

0: INFO: Executable: “C:\LightWave_85\Programs\lwsn.exe”

0: INFO: Arguments: “-3 -c"C:/LightWave_9.2/Config/” -d"U:/TO_RESPOWER/Royalpine_Int/" “c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\model1_2nd_floor_cut07_300.lws” 5 5"

0: INFO: StartupDir: “C:\LightWave_85\Programs”

0: INFO: UseJobObject: true

0: INFO: HideDosWindow: true

0: STDOUT: LightWave x86 ScreamerNet Module (Build 831)

0: STDOUT: CPU number: 46

0: STDOUT:

0: STDOUT: Current directory is now “U:/TO_RESPOWER/Royalpine_Int/”.

0: STDOUT: Loading “c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\model1_2nd_floor_cut07_300.lws”.

0: STDOUT: Clearing scene

0: STDOUT: Loading settings

0: STDOUT: Loading plug-in

0: STDOUT: Loading “objects/model1/Royalpine_mod1_2nd_floor.lwo”

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type ShaderHandler found with name SG_AmbOcc.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type ShaderHandler found with name SG_AmbOcc.

0: STDOUT: Plug-in Error: No plug-in of type ShaderHandler found with name SG_AmbOcc.

#4

Thanks! Now try this.



Open a command prompt on one of the machines you’re trying to render on,

and try to render from the command line using the same command line

arguments that Deadline is using. In this case:


“C:\LightWave_85\Programs\lwsn.exe” -3 -c"C:/LightWave_9.2/Config/"

-d"U:/TO_RESPOWER/Royalpine_Int/"

“c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\model1_2nd_floor_cut07_300.lws” 5 5



Note that you will have to ensure that the scene file

model1_2nd_floor_cut07_300.lws is in c:\deadline\slave\jobsData, or

that you change the path to point to the scene file’s location. Try this

and see if have the same problem.



Cheers,

#5

Hi, Ryan

Command line you suggested doesnt work as well.

Scene renders w/o config files.

After some time of trials and errors i found a problem. This is working commandline:



C:\LightWave_85\Programs\lwsn.exe -3 -c"C:/LightWave_85/Config" -d"U:/TO_RESPOWER/Royalpine_Int/" “c:\deadline\slave\jobsData\model1_2nd_floor_cut07_300.lws” 5 5



Difference is “/” in path to folder with config files. As soon as it looks like “C:/LightWave_85/Config” LWSN finds its configs. No matter using slash or backslash chair, quoted or not.



At best traditions of Newtek :slight_smile:

#6

Hi Nikita,



Thanks for the info. I’ve logged this as a bug in Deadline, as we should

be able to ensure that there is now “/” at the end of the config path

(at least for version 8.x and lower).



Cheers,

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