Maya - Bifrost not rendering in Arnold
Symptom:
Bifrost test scene (flame) loads and renders fine in the Viewport, but does not render at all in Arnold Render View or from the command line. The Scene renders, but the Bifrost objects are just not there.
OS: Red Hat 8.9
Maya installed as a Module:
module load maya/2024.2
Versions are all current:
Maya 2024.2
Bifrost 2.7.1.1
Arnold 7.2.4.1
Although I tried this for 2024.1 as well with the same result.
They are installed in:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/maya2024
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/bifrost/maya2024/2.7.1.1/bifrost/
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/arnold/maya2024
My PATH variables are:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/arnold/maya2024/bin:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/bifrost/maya2024/2.7.1.1/bifrost/bin:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/maya2024/bin:
/opt/crc/usr/local/bin:/opt/sge/bin/lx-amd64:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr
And my MAYA _PLUG_IN_PATH is
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/bifrost/maya2024/2.7.1.1/bifrost/plug-ins:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/bifrost/maya2024/2.7.1.1/vnn/plug-ins:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/arnold/maya2024/plug-ins:
/opt/crc/m/maya/2024-2/usr/autodesk/bifrost/maya2024/2.7.1.1/bifrost/lib
The command-line render command is:
Render -r arnold -proj /afs/crc.nd.edu/user/j/jslaught/vfx/maya_test_scene/ -s 1 -e 3 -log /afs/crc.nd.edu/user/j/jslaught/vfx/maya_test_scene/renderlog.txt -ai:lve 3 fire.mb
With the output attached below. The major red flag for me is this:
00:00:19 1603MB | initializing 12 nodes
00:00:19 1603MB | [bifrost] /flameTorch/flameTorchShape: no graph specified, translating inputs directly instead
00:00:19 1603MB | [proc] /flameTorch/flameTorchShape: loaded 0 nodes (0 objects, 0 shaders)
On my other machines, that actually loads some nodes.
I'm at a loss as to why it won't render Bifrost objects. Nothing stands out as 'wrong" and I'm just trying to render the demo flame.
Help!!