Maya 2010 Mental ray rendering

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  • jeffm365
    1st October 2009 at 4:39 pm #14340

    HI,
    I am trying to set up the Muster farm to batch render with Mental ray for Maya 2010.

    Has anyone had any luck setting up their farm with Maya 2010 mental ray? It works well with the software renderer, but can’t get it to work for mental ray.

    I have installed the Maya mental ray satellite software on the render node, but still is not calling mr.

    Thanks to anyone who can help!
    Jeff

    jeffm365
    2nd October 2009 at 2:39 pm #14999

    I have been able to get Maya 2010 to begin a mental ray render using Muster on on the first node (I am starting with one node to make sure it works).

    The problem now is that one frame is rendered and saved, the second image begins and then Muster reports a “Job Start timeout” error.

    The node processes the job fine as a command-line render.

    Any thoughts?
    Thanks,
    Jeff

    edit: It looks like the Muster ‘Status’ stays at ‘Starting’ and never switches to a rendering flag.

    jeffm365
    5th October 2009 at 6:00 pm #15001

    Update…
    Now I am receiving the following message from Muster;

    [MUSTER]Spawning process C:Program FilesAutodeskMaya2010binRender.exe inside C:Program FilesAutodeskMaya2010bin using the following command line flags:
    [MUSTER]-r -mr -rd “Q:AAA” -n -rt 4 -proj “D:PROJECTSLAT_sept09″ -s 16.000 -e 19.000 -b 1.000 -rfs 17 -rfb 1 -pad 1 “D:PROJECTSLAT_sept09scenesAnalog_TransitionsLER_docking_LERLER_docking_LER_color_2010.mb”

    Cannot open renderer description file “-mrRenderer.xml”

    [MUSTER]Process terminated with the following exit code: 208

    The -mrRenderer.xml file is in the same directory as the swrenderer.xml file, which it reads fine (since I don’t get errors on sw rendering).

    jeffm365
    13th October 2009 at 9:34 pm #15004

    So, with some help from the man himself, Leonardo, we now have Maya 2010 and Mental Ray for Maya 2010 running on our renderfarm using Muster 5.3.

    It turned out that i was making a couple bad commadline calls to Maya to get the MR running correctly.

    Jeff
    AMA Studios

    romeu
    25th May 2010 at 11:21 am #15066

    hi,

    we are trying to upgrade our render farm to maya 2010 and i would like to know what is needed to do with muster 5.5. so it works with maya 2010.

    Thanks.

    edit: forgot to mension, we are going for windows 7 also.

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