jeffm365

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

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 “PROJECTSLAT_sept09″ -s 16.000 -e 19.000 -b 1.000 -rfs 17 -rfb 1 -pad 1 “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).

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.

Here is a clip from the render log file.

Thanks!
Jeff
………………
Postprocessing rendering result.
Time For Tessellation (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:35
Time For Shadow Map (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:00
Time For Post Process (hh:mm:ss): 00:00:00
Time For Frame Render (hh:mm:ss): 02:10:42
Finished Rendering /root/D/PROJECTS/SM_Solutions/images/renderFarm_test/A1_camera1_OutpostPan.046.iff.

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Resource Usage At End Of Rendering
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191 Page faults
1008.145 Mb Peak total size(Estimated)
753.270 Mb Peak arena size
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205.875 Mb Heap
86.945 Mb Arrays
1.000 Mb NURBS AG
81.773 Mb File Texture Mipmaps
7.188 Mb Data Blocks
2.125 Mb Transforms
6.672 Mb Render Cache
0.125 Mb NURBS Surface Shapes
3.281 Mb MEL
0.125 Mb Keys
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Total Time For Render (hh:mm:ss): 04:23:56
Total Elapsed Time For Maya (hh:mm:ss): 04:24:17
mental ray: wallclock 4:24:18.73 total
mental ray: CPU user 9:01:18.31 total
mental ray: allocated 1 MB, max resident 2 MB, RSS 0 MB

[MUSTER]Process terminated with the following exit code: 0