Standalone per frame

[Mr.Hoo]

Well may be Royal Render need to support this syntax then?

yeah, I wrote them some hours ago - I just wanted to ask here before asking them

[bdancer]

Well may be Royal Render need to support this syntax then?

[Mr.Hoo]

Hi,

we are using Royal Render to submit the written vrscenes. The submit plugin reads the filepath written in the vrscene and this leads to a wrong image file path output:

in the vrscene:
img_file="Oelfilter_test.v003.001.<reName>.<frame0 4>.exr";
img_dir="*censored*/Oelfilter/test/houdini/render/";

in submitter:
../*censored*/Oelfilter_test_test.v003.001.<frame04>.exr

but it expects:
../*censored*/Oelfilter_test_test.v003.001.0001.exr

[chakarov]

Hello Mr.Hoo , this is how V-Ray understands $F4. This shouldn't be a problem for files names. In order to check the problem I'll need the whole file path expression you are using.

[Mr.Hoo]

vrscene should be fixed in the next night, frame tag replacement was done wrong (there is an error message in the log btw).
As a workaround you could use ${F4} instead of $F.

Hi Andrei,
currently we have the issue, that ${F4} in the File Path is not evaluated correctly inside the vrscene file. It is evaluated to <frame4>, and therefore writes incorrect named files.

Any idea why that is happening again?

VFH [Info] * Build number:7598 hash:a9b4e90 from 05 Jul 2020 11:54

Thanks
Dominik

[corestudio]

Update. Looks like it works! all three modes of the Deadline ROP.

[hsz]

Gary, add this to the houdini.env - this line

PYTHONPATH="${VRAY_APPSDK}/python27;${PYTHONPATH}"

[corestudio]

Thank you for the logs. Here are the errors:

How is V-Ray set up on the machine doing the export for this log ? The PYTHONPATH variable should contain the appsdk/python27 folder - not having this is the only reason I can think of for this message to pop up.
More info here: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...udini-18-0-391

When you say set up, can you be more specific? I'm not really the TD but is the PYTHONPATH typically set in the .env or is that a system variable?

[Gosho.Genchev]

Thank you for the logs. Here are the errors:

STDOUT: VFH [Error] * Python evaluation error: "No module named vray"
STDOUT: VFH [Error] * Traceback (most recent call last):
STDOUT: VFH [Error] * File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
STDOUT: VFH [Error] * ImportError: No module named vray

How is V-Ray set up on the machine doing the export for this log ? The PYTHONPATH variable should contain the appsdk/python27 folder - not having this is the only reason I can think of for this message to pop up.
More info here: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...udini-18-0-391

[corestudio]

Thanks I'll take a look. When I get a second I'll test again. My recollection is that we never got anything except Export Local/Render to work and that - for that scene at least - the .vrscene file creation was taking so long that we just ended up rendering in the Command line.

[bdancer]

vrscene should be fixed in the next night, frame tag replacement was done wrong (there is an error message in the log btw).
As a workaround you could use ${F4} instead of $F.

[Gosho.Genchev]

We've never gotten the V-Ray Deadline submitters to work.

We did report the Deadline problems.

Are we talking about this thread: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...be-fixed/page2

I was under the impression the problem is resolved - the submissions were failing because of errors in the log. Can you please try enabling the Log window and checking for text in red ?

[corestudio]

OK, so in the linked file both vrayScene nodes are reading the same sequence. The one called SEQ is reading it as a sequence whereas SINGLE is just reading frame 1501. SEQ does not render but SINGLE does.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oq8wa0xwc8...scene.zip?dl=0

[bdancer]

Tnx, much appreciated!

[corestudio]

Hey I'm trying to help as well. We did report the Deadline problems. I'm making a scene right now that shows the problem with the .vrscene sequences.