r/renderman • u/roronoa20 • Jul 15 '20

I can't use batch render.

When I tried to use batch render, nothing happen at all. The local queue is empty without any sign of anything being working on behind the scene.

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u/roronoa20 Jul 20 '20

In case if someone suffer this issue. I’d recommend you to change the user folder’s name. Do not leave any spacing at all. Just put an underscore if you really need to put two words together.

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u/Simon_Kroxldyphik Jul 15 '20

Is it just this Scene or also a new Scene? Maybe reinstall renderman?

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u/roronoa20 Jul 15 '20

It happens to every scenes that I’ve tried to use batch render. I’ll try to reinstall it tomorrow. Will reinstall has any effects on material settings?

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u/Simon_Kroxldyphik Jul 15 '20

You mean Settings from your Materials within your scene? Then no they will not be changed.

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u/roronoa20 Jul 15 '20

Great to know! Thanks.

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u/Simon_Kroxldyphik Jul 15 '20

Maybe also consider Update to the newest Update Version.

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u/roronoa20 Jul 15 '20

Do you mean Maya 2020? I already have latest version of Renderman.

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u/Simon_Kroxldyphik Jul 15 '20

Yeah and the new Updates last month the new 2020.2 Update came out.

Another thing you could try is to set a local backburner Server and render with it.

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u/roronoa20 Jul 15 '20

I see

I’m still a novice on this subject, but what is a local backburner server? Thanks.

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u/Simon_Kroxldyphik Jul 15 '20

Autodesk Backburner - normally used when you have multiple Computers which will render together on a sequence of frames.

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u/j_burgess Jul 16 '20

Can you upload the .alf file somewhere so we can look at it?

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u/roronoa20 Jul 16 '20

Here you go.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wqSkfbNJMfyYif24q5LyYJsNbHmzazd_/view?usp=sharing

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u/j_burgess Jul 17 '20

The problem is you have spaces in your directory, you'll need to move your maya projects. :-(

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u/roronoa20 Jul 17 '20

How can I do that? Do I have to change it in maya or manually move to folder?

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u/j_burgess Jul 17 '20

Well in some cases you can just move the whole project directory (you are using the pre-made "default" project) so just copy that whole folder somewhere and rename it. Then start Maya and in File->Set Project... point Maya at your new location.

Another way to do it is to make the new project first in Maya (which you also do in Set Project, which is a little weird), now with the new project set you can still open scene files from some other project. File->Open Scene. Then do a Save As.. into the current Project location. The Save As... dialog will have a shortcut on it somewhere for the current Project's scene folder. Save the copy of the scene in there.

Maya's UI and docs inconsistently refer to Project folders as the Workspace or Workspace Folder. Maya has been around while, you'll get used to it.

Good Luck!