Animation broken after mentalray batch render

[Anonymous]

Hey everyone!

This is my first time posting in a forum....ever so hopefully I do this correctly. I ran into this issue where after I batch rendered in mentalray, parts of my animation wasn't working. For example I get movement from the arms, body, mouth and eyes, but the eyebrows and some other parts of the face are not moving. It plays back fine in the camera viewport, and the playblasts work as well. There are two rigs in the scene and both are referenced. There is an object being handed from one rig to the other, so parent constraints are involved. I will have to post attachments when I get home later today, but I figured I'd post to see if anyone can help from this piece of information. Or maybe lead me to another thread where this has maybe happened before. I'm still fairly new to solving Maya problems! I render out with name.#.ext frames 1-200 in HD 1080 mentalray jpg because TIFF was not working unfortunately. Oh and I'm using Maya 2015 if that helps.

I have read that either importing the rigs should solve the problem OR baking the keys, which I've never done before (and still don't really understand). Any help is greatly appreciated :)!!!

[mspeer]

Hi!

If only the rendering does not work correct, try in Render Settings:

Configuration -> Translation -> Use Exact Hierarchy ("toggle")

You may also update your software and post to the NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Forum:

https://forum.nvidia-arc.com/

For further help please upload a scene-file.

[Anonymous]

mspeer thanks for your response!

When I went to try your recommendation, I hit another problem. Mentalray will start but then it says it has completed and rendered nothing out. I check the renderlog and this is what I get:

Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "vrayformaya2008", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "maxwell", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "finalRender", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "elastikSolver", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "RenderMan_for_Maya", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
Error: line 1: RuntimeError: file <maya console> line 1: Plug-in, "CorrectiveShape70", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
Result: externalContentTable
Warning: line 1: Selected nodes were ignored since the 'scene' flag was used.
Result: 1
Warning: line 1: Can't perform Mery_v3_5_for_2015:polySplit2 on selection
Warning: line 1: Can't perform Mery_v3_5_for_2015:polySplit3 on selection
File read in 8.2 seconds.
Result: S:/AvacadoDialogue/scenes/Render_Pass_funtional_atm__11180.mb
Warning: (Mayatomr.Scene) : output data type "rgba_h" not directly supported by image format jpg, conversion performed by mental ray
PHEN 0.8 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation
PHEN 0.8 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation
PHEN 0.7 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violationPHEN 0.7 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation
PHEN 0.7 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation

PHEN 0.7 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation
PHEN 0.8 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation
PHEN 0.8 61 MB fatal 051109: runtime exception 0xc0000005: access violation
// Maya exited with status 2

Mery is one of the characters in the scene. I tried uploading my scene file but Autodesk pooped out and would let me. I'll try again later or maybe use dropbox if that works? I updated everything I could; graphics card, windows 10, small mentalray update that I found. Also I'm using SP2 of Maya 2015.

[Anonymous]

Okay I put my scene file on Dropbox! Here is a link

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jshwdogxunzmqlz/Render_Pass_funtional_atm.mb?dl=0

Let me know if it doesn't work. Once again I appreciate any help at all being I'm a complete noob and can only troubleshoot to a certain point...

[mspeer]

Hi!

Here it renders fine with Maya 2016.5 and Mental Ray .

"small mentalray update that I found" ???

Maya Version and Mental Ray version (including Service Pack) have to match.

You may try update both to latest Service Pack 6.

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