Qmaster and Metnal Ray for Maya

I have set up Qmaster to render out for Maya but it only seems to render with the Maya Software Renderer. Can Qmaster distribute jobs for the Mental Ray renderer within Maya? I have MR satellite installed on the service nodes and am abel to batch render from Maya MR but can not from Qmaster.

I am aware of that as I use command line rendering from time to time. However, when I use the -r mr flag it does not seem to accept it. Also, when rendering from the command line the render will typically call on the scene file's render globals and use the renerer that is selected there. This does not seem to happen with Qmaster.
Also, when I try to usze the -rd flag to specify where to store the rendered images I get an error.
Any thoughts?

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Due to Muster (net-render tool for Maya) being mostly sucky we have decided to try and setup Qmaster for network rendering in our mac labs. Plus with using Qmaster we would have one unified interface for Shake and Compressor net rendering as well. I am able to submit compressor jobs to Qmaster just fine, but when I submit a maya job to Qmaster it just jumps to 100% and says it's successful. I never get any results from this. The status information window gives me this:
test again
Submission Time: 10/13/06 11:17:00 AM
Sent By: thomesm
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Status: Successful: /var/tmp/tmp.INMyy2: line 6: /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/bin/Render: No such file or directory
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Does anyone have Qmaster up and running and successfully using it for Maya? Submitting a compressor job to Qmaster is freaking easy, but Maya is driving me nuts. I would really appreciate some help. There is little to no documentation on how this works minus the basic setup quide.
Dual 2.3Ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks for the reply...
1. Maya is installed and in the same location on all the machines.
- It wasn't on my Xserve and is now.
2. The path to the Maya render command is the same path in QMaster batch.
I copied the command line into terminal and got this:
Marks-G5-2-0:~ mark$ /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/bin/Render -proj /Volumes/Animation/rendFarmTest -s 1.000 -e 6.000 -b 1.000 -r mr /Volumes/Animation/rendFarmTest/scenes/smileyCube.mb
Starting "/Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/bin/maya"
File read in 0 seconds.
Result: /Volumes/Animation/rendFarmTest/scenes/smileyCube.mb
mental ray for Maya 7.0
// mental ray for Maya: using startup file /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/maya.rayrc
mental ray for Maya: setup
mental ray for Maya: initialize
mental ray: version 3.4.5.2, 06 July 2005
mental ray for Maya: using 1 license
mental ray for Maya: register extensions
// mental ray Node Factory: loaded
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/base.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/contour.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/paint.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/physics.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
// parsing /Applications/Alias/maya7.0/Maya.app/Contents/mentalray/include/subsurface.mi
// generating Maya nodes...
mental ray for Maya: successfully registered
mental ray: got 8 satellite CPUs.
Marks-G5-2-0:~ mark$
When I run this in the terminal it renders to the network drive great and appears to work.
Looks like that worked. So now that I have maya installed on my server I get a different message in Qmaster after it's done.
Submission Time: 10/20/06 2:33:14 PM
Sent By: thomesm
Time Elapsed: 3 sec.
Percent Completed: 100
Status: Successful: metal ray: allocated 1 MB, max resident 2 MB, RSS 0 MB
So I've made progress I guess, but I don't have any rendered frames in my images folder. So I don't know where it's putting them.
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Qmaster and Maya... "How to's"

I am attempting to set up Qmaster to network render my modeler's Maya projects. We've been using mentalray's network renderer, but we need to submit AE and FCP files to the same Xservers as well, so Qmaster seems like the easiest way to manage multiple network renders from a single location. We have 3 Xservers that we render to and our shared resources are on a PC (smb) server (that's where our department's "GraphicArts" production server is). I'm new at this network admin thing (really I'm just a designer, our IT guys don't want to have anything to do with the "new" Xservers).
It seems like I've gotten most of the Qmaster setup working. I have the servers with Qmaster installed and they are listening... My cluster seems fine with my G5 as the controller; it reads all my Xservers and the Controller itself... The Maya files render fine to the Xservers from Maya with the mentalray satellites BUT NOT FROM QMASTER! Qmaster will send the render out but it only renders on my G5 controller, not on any of the Xservers, none the less, only to .iff! The submitted Renders all show up in the Batch Monitor but jump to 100% complete as soon as the render starts. When I use the Maya bin file standards to change the file type to .psd, the render fails. Bogus!
So...
Question 1) Is there a problem with, say, sharing source files from a smb server when the Qmaster Cluster itself is connected via afp? (I don't think so since my controller will render fine and it's connected to both servers [afp and smb] in the same manner as my Xservers)
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Question 3) Does my Controller's Shared Cluster Storage need to be the same file path as the Nodes'? I have a custom Shared Cluster Storage path on my G5 Controller so I can easily see my temp files (no command line necessary, it's in my Documents folder). Do I need that path to be exactly the same on all machines rendering? (It wouldn't seem that way since each Qmaster node is it's own app and has its own temp files folder to reference when rendering)
I've been really disappointed with the amount of documentation Apple and Autodesk offer for Qmaster setup (as in zero insomuch as troubleshooting goes) and I hope that this thread will document a step-by-step process for anyone else trying to get this seemingly powerful production method to work.
So, in summary:
My Cluster setup seems fine, but when I submit a Maya file via Qmaster my Xservers falsely report 100% complete and my G5 Controller takes only 10 frames and begins rendering. I need to render to .tiff or to .psd as opposed to the Maya standard .iff.
Again, I hope this thread will lead to a bit more effort by Apple and Ali- Autodesk in their product integration documentation.
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Asynchrony Solutions
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PMG5 2.7ghzX2 / PBG4 1.6ghz / (3) Xserver 2.3ghzX2 / XRAID 3TB / a whole lotta love Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I can't answer all your questions but I can try to shed some light on some of them for you. I have not used QMaster with xserves but I have it working on my small LAN at home.
Regarding question 2) Maya needs to be installed on all the computers that you are using in the cluster. You do not need to license them only install them. This will put the components necessary to complete the render tasks on those nodes. You should also realize how QM splits the Maya jobs up. It simply divides the job into equal numbers of frames for each node and sends it out. So be sure you cache all your particles/dynamics/fluids/hair/cloth etc before you submit the job. It does not use the collective power of the cluster to work on each frame (like MR satellite does). I do not submit Mental Ray jobs to the cluster but choose rather to use the MRsat at a batch from the command line.
Question 1) Alias (now autodesk) does not recommend using a mixed network for rendering. I am not sure why. I have had mixed results on my end with MRsat.
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I made these pkgbuilds for my sister to use on our home machines, but figured someone may find them useful. Of course, this assumes you have the official Maya for Linux CD to copy the RPM's from and a license; it just converts Autodesk's stuff into Arch's format.
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Apcw appears to be the maya product activation wizard, not the main product. Did you have to install lib32-xinerama or just libxinerama on your x64 to make apcw work? If so, I guess they used a 32 bit activator for the 64 bit program for whatever reason. What happens post-activation with a) both libraries installed b) neither installed c) only libxinerama installed d) only lib32-libxinerama installed ?
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Both of you recommend H.264 vs. MPEG 2 for encoding. If I am rendering a 1 hour 20 minute Blu-ray, for burning Blu-Rays that I need to paly on a white variety of standalone players, what is the better choice and whay? I was planning on burning to single layer Blu-Ray at best quality. I am also using 5.1 audio.
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I have read also the forum here about qmaster and AE done everything they told, mounted all the shred drive but still no output files. though my cluster is running, receiving jobs and processing and generating an status of Succesful Progress... After Effects succesfully launched
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I have a Mac Pro early 2008 (3,1) with two display cards - an ATI 2600 HD (came with the computer) and an Apple branded ATI 5770.
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I have a small Qmaster queue up and running (surprisingly) for Final Cut Pro 5.1. It runs smoothly most of the time, but when a user submits a job with a missing file, each node pops a window asking if you would like to reconnect the media or to continue. These windows stay on the system and block the node from doing any further work until I find out about the problem, and clear the pop up window.
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I agree. It would be. But when you are dealing with many different users, mistakes happen occasionally. A mistake in this case means any node that picked up the job is hung until someone clicks a little pop up window on each of the nodes.
I understand where you are coming from, but it's my job to make sure the nodes are always running properly. I can't ultimately control whether a user submits a job with a piece of media local to the machine unless I stand in each of the rooms at all times.
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Hi guys, just had a few problems recently with my HP dvd and blu-ray software....
I have been using the software for about the last 2 years without problems, but recently i have tried using both DVD's and Blu-Ray discs, and they do not start playing either through autoplay (inserting the disc), or hitting the play button on the player.
I have tried updating from the menu, but whenever I try to do this my Internet says that "Your current security settings do not allow this file to be downloaded". However, I do not have any other problems downloading different files and other updates.
If anyone has experienced this problem before or knows how to fix it, please help me out!

Temporarily turn off your internet software. Download and SAVE the update to your desktop, disconnect your computer from the internet, then turn off your antivirus. Do not plug in any USB flash drives as this may transfer viruses. Install the software, when you're done, turn on the antivirus, re-connect your computer to the internet.
I have more HP devices than you'd expect.
1 HP TouchPad 32 GB with Android
2 HP Touchsmarts (310-1000z and IQ527)
2 HP Printers (J6480 and J5750)
1 Laptop (HP DV6253CL)
Have at least some experience in each of those devices, and i'll do my best to help you.
Kudos if I helped!

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