Remove old plugins requirements

[SEQUENZ | Gerstenmaier]

Hi,

we have trouble rendering a scene (Maya 2017 Update 3, Windows) on a render farm, because Maya thinks that it needs some old plugins (honestly I don’t know where there are coming from, as we had never used these plugins):

requires "RenderMan_for_Maya" "4.0.0";
# Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. # 
requires "shaveNode" "1.1";
# Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "shaveNode", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. # 
requires "vrayformaya2008" "1.0";
# Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "vrayformaya2008", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH. # 

What we tried so far:

- save as ma scene, but can’t edited the file (scene is 600 MB big) or do we need another editor?

- Optimize scene with „Remove unknown nodes“ checked

- Searched in the Outliner ( DAG disabled) -> nothing found

- Export all stuff in new scene

- Searched for plugins in use:

pluginInfo -query -pluginsInUse;
// Result: vrayformaya 3.52.02 renderSetup.py 1.0 stereoCamera 10.0 // 

- Searched for unknown nodes:

string $node="";
string $unknownNodes[] = `ls -type "unknown"`;
// Result:   // 

Nothing helped! Shit! How can we get ride of that stuff?

Thanks for any help,

Lars

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[Balazs Pataki]

Since Maya 2016.5 you can use the unknownPlugin command.

Here's a short script that removes every unknown plugin.

import maya.cmds as cmds
unknown_plugins = cmds.unknownPlugin(q=True, list=True) or []
for up in unknown_plugins:
    cmds.unknownPlugin(up, remove=True)

[Alexandre Pillon]

See http://mayastation.typepad.com/maya-station/2015/04/how-to-prevent-maya-writing-a-requires-command-for-a-plug-in.html

Otherwise, save file as Maya Ascii, open in text editor and remove the uneeded requires lines at the top of the file

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[Steve Davy]

Thanks for sharing! I've spent no end of time over the years dealing with this issue.

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Subject: [maya_he3d] Re: Remove old plugins requirements

 

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[Lars Gerstenmaier]

Yes, thanks a lot Balazs. You save my day!

Open in an editor is no fun with a 500 MB file.

Lars 

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