fume fx mental ray render on the farm - black frames?

#1

I am trying to render a FumeFX cache using Mental Ray. It works on my machine but renders black frames on the render farm. The logs seem to show that the caches are being found, and getting loaded. It looks like maybe an illumination map is not being generated? (I get no alpha channel, though…?)

The logs were previously complaining about not finding the plugin, I think, but that’s been resolved. The frames do not error out, they just render very quickly.

I’ve tried turning on the “sim only license” option on the FumeFX node. No help.

This is using Maya 2014, Win 7, and FumeFX 3.5.5

Is there anything else to try? Anything?

thx

#2

yes there is :wink:

for some reason fumefx is missing the proper mentalray location and installs fumefx files into maya/mr

all you have to do is copy the fumefx files to proper place ->c:\Program Files\Autodesk\mentalrayForMaya2014\

let me know does it help

cheers

#3

HI

Our IT guy has looked at that. It’s working on one of the render farm machines, but we still don’t have a handle on what’s going on. If we find a solution I will post more…

#4

in 99% of black render is missing a fume mr dlls,

i can suggest u to try log into one of the computers and run maya, load the scene with fume, and try to render.

If that doesnt work then i guess u have a probl with lic or like i said fume mr support dlls

anyway, let me know how did it go, if u still have a probl we could continue via PM

cheers

#5

I found out something. I am able to render through the Deadline render launching software IF I remotely log into a render machine and open a session of maya on that machine. Our IT guy says it might be something related to Autodesk cloud licensing.

#6

oh i see, hope u’ll be able to find the solution soon

cheers