"Bad parent found" Error while submitting a vray Deadline job

[Jon3D]

While submitting a vrayDeadline Job I get this error:

Error: Bad parent found (parent is not a network): out/renderElements/channelsContainer.init.

at Deadline.Plugins.PluginWrapper.RenderTasks(String taskId, Int32 startFrame, Int32 endFrame, String& outMessage, AbortLevel& abortLevel)

I also attached the error report.

Any idea what could be the reason for that?

kind regards
Jon

[Gosho.Genchev]

Hey Jon3D ,

could you please check the Renderer->Images->Network parameter to see if it's pointing to the actual Render Elements ROP and not the channelsContainer node inside of it ?
If that is not the reason for the issue, the hip file would be much appreciated - you can remove everything but the ROPs.

Edit:

Scratch that - judging by the log, V-Ray is not loaded at all by Houdini. Please check the following:
1. In the Monitor, please make sure the specified Houdini version has a vray_for_houdini.json file in the $HFS/packages directory. In my case, I use Houdini18.0.499 for the Deadline jobs and the vray_for_houdini.json file is here:
"C:\Program Files\Side Effects Software\Houdini 18.0.499\packages\vray_for_houdini.json"
2. Please open the vray_for_houdini.json file and verify the INSTALL_ROOT variable is pointing to the right place.


Best regards!

[Jon3D]

Hey Gosho,

Hip File is attached. For now I just deleted everything but the ROPs like you said. I tried it even without Render Channels and got the same Error.

[Gosho.Genchev]

Jon3D , I updated my post about 5 minutes before you replied. Please take a look again.

Cheers!

[Jon3D]

Hey Gosho,

Ah sorry I missed your post edit. Its working now. Thank you very much.
It would be worth to mention that in the help I think

cheers!