Installing Maya Connector

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  • Blugh
    17th January 2007 at 11:10 pm #14153

    I am currently a student at VanArts and we got Muster for our render farm. Its working but I just noticed that there is a mel, shelve and icons for a Maya Connector. I places the files in the maya folders and I do have the shelf and icons but when I click on any icon it says “no MUSTER enviroment variable. Connector cannot proceed!”
    I do know some about windows variables but I do not now (or have rights) to install one for muster.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated
    Thanks,
    Troy

    Leonardo Bernardini
    18th January 2007 at 1:51 pm #14609

    You can configure an environmental variables for your user account only modifying the file Maya.env available in your documents and settings/maya folder.

    This is a workaround for users not able to configure variables system-wide.

    Regards.

    Blugh
    18th January 2007 at 11:27 pm #14611

    Thanks
    I was able to look through your Mel file and find out what to add and i was able to add it to the enviroment variable.
    Now we just need to figure out why some scenes render while others dont

    Leonardo Bernardini
    23rd January 2007 at 5:01 pm #14615

    Check the render logs. They always gives a reason for a failure.

    Regards.

    Jerry
    5th March 2007 at 4:29 am #14618

    Hi – I’m a bit of a noob here so play nice :) can someone please show me an example of their maya.env file showing the environmental variable named MUSTER that points to the location of the installed Mrtool executable?

    I’m getting a “Publishing directory not exists or not a directory!” error when trying to submit from Maya…

    I’ve tried a few different combo’s and the help docs and google aren’t helping me out this time round :S

    Thanks in advance
    J

    Leonardo Bernardini
    22nd May 2007 at 12:10 am #14661

    The problem you get is not related to the environment variable. If the connector starts, it means you’ve a MUSTER var configured. Good or bad, you’ll see it later when mrtool is invoked.

    Regarding the error, did you specify a publishing directory ? The connector assumes you’re going to publish your work remotely somewhere on your network..

    cirus47
    5th December 2008 at 7:29 am #14893

    Hi everyone im also a complete noob. I’m just trying to help a few friends build a renderfarm for a small project that they are working on.

    1.) I’ve installed Muster on the Maya workstations but no Muster”shelf buttons” show up in Maya.

    2.)The user manual tells me to define a new environmental variable named MUSTER that points to the location ofthe installed Mrtool executable “currently c:Program FilesVisual VertexMusterMrtool.exe how do I do this?

    3.) It then tells me to load the shelves,it by simply executing the Mel command: loadNewShelf “shelf_Muster.mel”
    Is this done from MEL command line in Maya?

    4.) It then tells me to source the .mel file:
    source “MusterConnector.mel”
    Is this also from the Mel command line?

    Please help!!!!

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