Phoenix 3.12 Output Path Problem when simulating on Blades with deadline ! Falling back to default. //

Phoenix Issues
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Hey Guys

unfortunately we have a problem with the 3.12 version of Phoenix.

local all the simlulation works just fine but when i submit a sim over deadline to a renderblade, all cacheframes are getting stored localy on the blade.

The maya script ed shows this error while submitting:

// Warning: Phoenix FD: Invalid cache path specified `/media/CX_VFX/_INTERN/FELIX/phoenixFD_Test/data/`! Falling back to default. //

hopefully one of you has an idea.

We are working with Maya 2018 &Phoenix 3.12

Thank you in advance

cheers

Felix Brosche
3D Artist

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Hey,

The error message comes from the Global Preferences dialogue. Check if your path there is valid. Mind that it’s a setting specific only to a version of Maya, only on that machine. Maybe you are submitting to a machine that has this path override in the preferences and this is why it can’t find your submitted caches?

Cheers!

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Hi Svetlin,

true, but even with the correct path in there it is doing it.
Just found that workaround.

This is my Path inside Maya : media/CX_VFX/_INTERN/FELIX/phoenixFD_Test/data/Test_####.aur

This is the path which deadline is creating : /home/chromatix/maya/projects/default/media/CX_VFX/_INTERN/FELIX/phoenixFD_Test/data/Test_####.aur

With the slashes i am getting rid of the unnecessary parts of the Path /../../../../../media/CX_VFX/_INTERN/FELIX/phoenixFD_Test/data/Test_####.aur

cheers and happy new year :slight_smile:

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Ahhh, so “media” is not a mapped drive, but a relative path. I don’t think these would work in the Phoenix plugin - there is only support for relative paths when rendering with vray.exe through vrscene files.

Will double check and add a TODO item for implementing relative paths.

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Actually it is an absolut path. I forgot one slash here : /media/CX_VFX/_INTERN/FELIX/phoenixFD_Test/data/Test_####.aur We are working on CentOS 7, so ´CX_VFX is our main drive.

Cheers