Paintfx Render Farm Crash

[user_deleted]

I have some eyelashes converetd to polys.
they render fine locally.
on the render farm I get 'Scheduler Thread - Exception during render: Error: Cannot find procedure "getStrokeUVFromPoly".'

I've checked of course in the program files folder and the proc is there, in a mel script called getStrokes.mel, so I can't figure out what could be wrong. I've checked the plug-in manager but don't see any paintfx related stuff there that might not be loaded...other than that I can't see what could be up?

[joojaa]

put source getStrokes in a expression that runs every frame

[user_deleted]

ok. just out of curiosity why is that happening?

edit I just did
expression -s "source getStrokes.mel"

it creates the expression but I still get the crash.
I checked that the expression has "always evaluate" checked, do I need to do anything else?

[joojaa]

Chek that the render sees the mel files. You can preint stuff form commandline with the scripts flag.

[user_deleted]

the mel files are in the "program files" directory on that render machine, so I have to believe it does see them.. also if it couldn't see the maya script folder, tons of other stuff would crash I imagine...

[joojaa]

QUOTE(holographix @ 04/17/09, 06:31 PM) [snapback]306052[/snapback]
the mel files are in the "program files" directory on that render machine, so I have to believe it does see them..

Don't belive check Ask in maya in a mescript thet prints the environment and put that in prerender script and run render.

Youd be supprised how often this is the cause.

[mnhan32]

I have the same issue using Deadline from Frantic Films
It's on their doc, in maya batch mode, bunch of mel scripts will not get loaded.
so, as Joojaa mentioned, just type in source "getStrokes"; in your pre-render script.

[user_deleted]

ok...thanks guys. just tried it but no go.

to be clear, are we saying to type
source "getStrokes";
in the maya render settings window, 'preRender MEL' field?
to be safe I also entered it in 'prerender layer MEL' and 'prerender Frame MEL'.
But no luck...

yes I am using deadline... please help!