Softimage always returns errors.

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Hi,

I'm having some problem and I'm not sure when it started.

Here we use both Arnold and Mental Ray.
Softimage 2013 on win7.
RR 6.1.7

Softimage renders fine and images are written on disk, but it returns an error code an RR thinks someting is wrong.
This is annoying becouse everything is red and it's diffucoult to check jobs.


Log example:
R3906| // INFO : JOB 0.5 646 MB progr: 100.0% rendered on 3dboxx04.5
R3907| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : rendering statistics
R3908| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : type number per eye ray
R3909| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : transparent rays 35688
R3910| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : reflection rays 70530
R3911| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : refraction rays 123887
R3912| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : shadow rays 27001480
R3913| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : environment rays 311
R3914| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : probe rays 2674272
R3915| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : fg points interpolated 3985739
R3916| // INFO : RC 0.4 645 MB info : on average 53.15 finalgather points used per interpolation
R3917| // INFO : PHEN 0.4 621 MB progr: calling output shaders
R3918| // INFO : PHEN 0.4 621 MB progr: Writing image file '\\10.42.1.1\work\projects\mulino_bianco_amici_2012\Render_Pictures\Render\shot_08\bty\bty.016.exr' (Channel 'Main').
R3919| // INFO : RR - Rendering done!
R3920| Warning: return value of the executed script is not an integer
R3921| // INFO : Render completed (100% done)
R3922| // INFO : RC 0.4 621 MB progr: rendering finished
R3923| // INFO : RC 0.4 621 MB info : wallclock 0:04:06.76 for rendering
R3924| // INFO : RC 0.4 621 MB info : current mem usage 621 MB, max mem usage 755 MB
R3925| // INFO : GAPM 0.4 621 MB info : triangle count (including retessellation) : 511409
R3926| // INFO : IMG 0.4 618 MB info : total for cached textures and framebuffers:
R3927| // INFO : IMG 0.4 618 MB info : 4976640 pixel accesses
R3928| // INFO : IMG 0.4 618 MB info : 623 pages loaded/saved, 0.0125185% image cache failures
R3929| // INFO : IMG 0.4 618 MB info : maximal texture cache size: 208 pages, 3.214 MBytes
R3930| // INFO : IMG 0.4 618 MB info : uncompressed cached texture I/O: 6.427 MB
R3931| // INFO : MEM 0.4 522 MB info : physical memory detected: total 8190 MB, free 5572 MB
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-etc-
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R4100| // VERBOSE : ICEFlow AddConstraintPlugin has been unloaded.
R4101| +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
R4102| +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
R4103| ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Render Executable done +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
R4104| ++++++++++++++++++++ Royal Render checks the return code of the executable ++++++++++++++++++++
R4105| ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 07.23. 15:33.17 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
R4106| ++++ Executable returned -1073741819 (0x c0000005) as exit code for frame 14.
R4107| ++++++ Render crashed
R4108| -
R4109| +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
R4110| "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
0| "3DBOXX04 rrClient console L 6.01.70 rrVer6.01.70"
1| "15:33:17,97"
2| "Job ID: {RZR}"
3| "++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
4|
5|
6|
7|
8| Current time:07.23 15:33.22
9|
10| Max memory usage of Job: 1.18GB
11| Max CPU usage of Job: 4.00CPUs (of 4 CPUs)
C 0| ************************* CLIENT REPORTS DURING THIS RENDER *************************
C 1|
C 2| Startup to first frame: 00.58 m.s (render app start + scene load + 1st frame preprocessing)
C 3| Job was aborted

[schoenberger]

Hi

There is definately a crash of the application. (0xc0000005 is accessing memory which was not taken for the application)

So there is a bug in one of the plugins or features of Softimage you use that crashes Softimage.
As a workaround, please enable "ignore crashes" at the rrSubmitter for the job.

Next step is to report the crash to the vendor of the plugin/SI feature that fails.
Do you get the crash if you render a simple cube with MRay?
If you do, then you have to remove the plugins/addons in your workgroup folder until it does not crash any more.
If not, do you get the crash if you render a simple cube with Arnold?
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

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Hi Holger,

thx for replying...

I removed a faulty plugin and now we render fine with Arnold. No errors.

We still have the problem with mr.. I'm going to try to disable the Arnold plugin, maybe the two renderer are fighting...

[schoenberger]

We do not have any issue with SitoA on our farm...
(mental ray is still rendered)
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

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Do you have the Arnold plugin loaded while you render with mr?

We have only 1 wg and we use it to render both with mr and rr.
So I can't understand wich plugin could generate errors while rendering with Mr and not with Arnold.

I'm going to chech custom shaders too...

[schoenberger]

Hi

Yes, we have only one workgroup.
Although I do not know which sitoa versio is installed. Could be the last mayor release.
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization

[schoenberger]

You can try to remove all plugins including the Arnold shader. (just remove the folder, no need to use the uninstall menu in Softimage )
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Holger Schönberger
Binary Alchemy - digital materialization