Maya exited with status 210

[rhythmone]

And just to clarify... I believe that I have tried many troubleshooting combinations...
The proc runs fine when executed from within Maya
I have tried "source path/to/file; proc"
I have tried "source path/to/file" and have the execution call after the proc like:
global proc rendPass () {
bla;
bla;
}
rendPass;

.... I have tried in both TCSH and BASH... and at this point I have emptied the proc just to try and call it without error.
global proc rendPass () {
}

[rhythmone]

ALLRIGHT!!! For any of you other poor souls who have come across this...

So I am using BBedit to write mel... and it saves line breaks in UNIX.... well the command line doesn't like this... (which sucks cause Maya was reason why I had to set my BBedit preferences to UNIX)... So I opened up TextEdit and saved out a parser:
global proc simpleStupidParser (string $mel) {
eval $mel;
}

... and now everything works...
... you don't have to source it.
.... you don't have to quote it.
.... you don't have to escape \char\acter it..... NOTHING.... now hopefully I can get on with my life.

[llikethat]

Hi!

I'm one among those poor souls.. i'm getting the same error. Could you please explain me in detail how you are executing your script. And why this problem is occuring.

Thanks,

[rhythmone]

Hi

I was able to resolve this by using TextEdit to create a generic parser script... I believe that textEdit writes its linebreaks in a manner that is more command line friendly (although I am sure if you knew the line break format you could set up any editor to use it, I just didn't want to change my bbedit format cause it will break some of my mel line breaks)

Anyway, I just created this

global proc rendPrepPass_parser (string $mel) {

// THIS FILE IS FOR CMD LINE ACCESS ONLY
// LINE BREAKS FROM BBedit ARE NOT WORKING IN SHELL

evalEcho $mel;
}

Then from the shell script:
#***********************************************************************
pass="occlusion"
passScript="rendPrepPass_${pass}"
rPass="string\$curChar=\"${char}\";${rendPass}(\"${passScript}\")"

Render -im $pass -preRender $rPass -proj $projPath -of $format -fnc 2 -cam $cam -x $dimenX -y $dimenY -pad 4 -rd $rendPath $filePath

It appears that you cannot put ANY spaces in the preRender value, I tried escape characters, double quotes, etc.. and could never get it to work, so now if I have to pass in a list, I use commas to separate th values.

I know, lame, but now everything is working great so until I understand all the different line break insanity...

One Other thing - I just bought a new MacBookPro and noticed that the default shell is BASH again, not sure why Apple keeps switching back and fourth.... all I could ever really get to work was BASH though

[llikethat]

Hi!

I'm really sorry.. i couldn't understand the shell script and the proceedure too... I'm still trying to understand how to use the mel parser also.

In my case, i want use a script to change the absolute paths inside a maya scene to relative paths. Then call the script using the -preRender flag and render the scene. This is the command i used...

C:\>render -r sw -s 1 -e 1 -preRender "D:\....\....\mel\furExpressionRelative.mel" D:\....\.....\scenes\whatafile.mb


The script i use is as follows...

string $expressions[]=`lsType expression`;
string $del[]={"<done>",""};
$expressions=stringArrayRemove($del, $expressions);
string $FurDescriptions[]=`lsType FurDescription`;
$FurDescriptions=stringArrayRemove($del, $FurDescriptions);
for($exp in $expressions)
{
string $checks[]=`listConnections $exp`;
for ($ch in $checks)
{
for ($Fur in $FurDescriptions)
{
if ($ch==$Fur)
{
select $exp;
string $a=`expression -q -s $exp`;
string $buffer[];
$numTokens =`tokenize $a "\"" $buffer`;
$regularExpr =$buffer[($numTokens-2)];
string $p=`substitute ".*:.*/.*fur" $regularExpr "fur/fur"`;
string $v=$buffer[0]+"\""+$buffer[1]+"\""+$buffer[2]+"\""+$buffer[3]+"\""+$buffer[4]+"\""+$p+"\""+$buffer[6];
expression -e -s $v $exp;
select -cl;
}
}
}
}


Please tell me how do i use the -preRender flag here.

Thanks,

[rhythmone]

Not sure if I can help you with this one... I was a proponent of relative paths but have sicne switched to using environmental variables instead. I did this for numerous reasons:
-Referencing a scene which itself contains a relative path, will try and resolve the relative path against the location of the parent scene, not the referenced scene... this was breaking everything for me.
-Env vars (paths) can also be set in the shell script prior to render
-Setting the paths prior to opening the scene is more efficient then having Maya try to resolved or reference a path that you are going to end up replacing anyway

[rygoody]

So I got maya exited with status 210 as well. But I got it differently. Maya mental ray found the file just fine, rendered the entire thing just fine got to 100% just fine. But then the first error it gets is:

PHEN 0.2 error 051003: frame buffer 0 invalid cannot create file C:/etc/pic.exr [The operation completed succesfully]


Which then prints out another dozen lines which seem like it's completed normal. But comes to:

Error: Scene scene.mb failed to render.

// Maya exited with status 210


Anyone know whats going on here?

[llikethat]

Try using a different file format. It looks like you are using .exr, try using iff or someother format and see if you are getting an error.

Regards,

[rygoody]

Thanks for the advice. I tried used .hdr and it did save out the render. Although it still exited with status 210.

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