Renderman 21 with xGen + maya 2017

[Aykan Cem Karayakas]

Hello Royal Render Knights,

i'm a student at ifs koeln and I have some issues with royal render and renderman. First of all, I am a real newbie and I tried to handle everything trough the manual.

First of all I tried to render a Scene with Renderman 21.2 on Royal Render and I use XGen in my Scene. But unfortunately Royal Render does not render Xgen. Everything else is rendered. There is also another problem. Royal Render is rendering the frames but it is not recognizing that and it also skips a couple frames.
I'm submitting the scene through maya.

I also tried to use the method through .rib exports, like in the manual. But it won't work either.

Is anyone experienced with Renderman and XGen?



Kind Regards

Cem Karayakas

[RR support, Schoenberger]

Hi

Which RR version do you use? 7 or 8?
And with which Maya version?

There was an issue with XGen that it was not automatically loaded by
Maya at render time. I am not sure if this is still the case with the
current Maya version.

> Royal Render is rendering the frames but it is not recognizing that

There seems to be a difference between the output filename in the RR
job and the files being rendered by renderman.

Please select the job in rrControl and export the debug info via the
menu Debug.
Upload it via www.RoyalRender.de/upload_r.php. Thanks.

Holger Schönberger

Please use the rrKnights Tavern or
our support system for new questions

[RR support, Schoenberger]

PS: Have seen the Maya version in the title...

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[Aykan Cem Karayakas]

Hi,

We are using RR 7.0.35 and Maya 2017 with Update 2.
I uploaded the debug info.

Thank you for your help

[RR support, Schoenberger]

Note:
There have been some updates and changes for Renderman for Maya in RR8.
It is now easier to use.

I will check the debug file.

[RR, Schoenberger]

Hi

Ok, there are two issues with the file name:
First, RR expects the render layer name in the filename, this could be an issue with the new render layer system.
The second issue is that the frames have a "LPE", "utility" and "variance" in the filename instead.
If you can delete all geo from the scene file and upload it to us, then I can try to repro the issue.


Xgen:
There are two error messages in the log file (rrControl tab job log)
XGen: Cannot copy file from: Y:/production/3D//assets/ship/mdl/_publish/cp_030_lgt_v019_ack__ki_col.xgen
XGen: Failed to open file: C:/RR_localdata/cachedscenes/renderfiles_Cem/cp_030/37371432/lgt/cp_030_lgt_v019_ack__ki_col.xgen


Is Y: mapped on the render farm? If not, then please use UNC paths for the file names.

Then RR moves the scene file, this should not be an issue, but it might be in this case.
Please disable "Local Scene Copy" for the job. (if it is disabled, then use the Show All button)




regards,

Holger Schönberger

Please use the rrKnights Tavern

or our support system for new questions.

[Aykan Cem Karayakas]

Hi

i solved a lot problems. First of all, thank you for your support. Through disabling local scene copy royal render was able to render XGen. And the reason why it has not recognized the rendered frames was that in the Render Settings the "Frame/Animation ext" was set to "name_#.ext" instead of "name.#.ext". Instead of using underscore i used the dot and it just worked. 

regards

Cem Karayakas