Some Problems Rendering With Maya

Question

Hi there! I had submitted a Maya job with my Qmaster and it worked fine with my sime animation sequence and putting up basic materials. Now, I have a quite complex scene and it includes materials and textures. Qmaster renders the animation sequence but it only gives me black and white outputs... the textures were not included!
What seems to be the problem?

Answer 1

Hi there! I had submitted a Maya job with my Qmaster
and it worked fine with my sime animation sequence
and putting up basic materials. Now, I have a quite
complex scene and it includes materials and textures.
Qmaster renders the animation sequence but it only
gives me black and white outputs... the textures were
not included!
What seems to be the problem?
Hi,
I haven't used qmaster, but i have extensive experience network rendering with maya, so here goes.
Most likely, your problem is that you are rendering across multiple machines, but the volume names are different. Your file paths must match exactly. For example, on my pc's, all of them have a y: drive. Whenever I need to network render a project, I will just use the y drive and make an exact copy of the directory on each computer. this is also the same format that the renderfarm I use. Unless you have a SAN, you will need to do something similar to this on the mac.
If you poke around, you should be able to find a log file that will show you that textures could'nt be found (missing), and in that case, the renderer render's black.
I am interested in qMaster since I have switched my studio over to mac's and need a good network renderer. If you can post your experience when you get a chance i would like to know how it works for you.
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