Static geometry missing from many frames, but present on som

[dhernand]

RENDERMAN FARM ERROR:\r\n\r\nError: (01/20 01:28) rfm Error: R12001 File renderman/library_interior_look_011/rib/job/staticGeoCache.job.zip!renderman/library_interior_look_011/rib/job/polySurfaceShape156.job.rib cannot be opened by RiReadArchive.

Static geometry missing from many frames, but present on some.

[dhernand]

we have been having problems on the farm recently with renderman. What is happening is, even in simple scene like a sphere and a plane, objects raadomly disappear when rendered in random frames. The errors we get on those frames is attached above but it appears that it cannot locate the StaticGeo of the object. This problem we have found does not occor if we archive the geomerty in the scene but it shouldn't do this in the first place and I was currious if you had any ideas of how to fix this.

[dhernand]

We had this issue last quarter or sometime earlier. I cannot remember how/if we fixed the issue.
The staticgeo.zip is created on frame 1 so if a machine (A) on the farm has been told to render frame 2 and it occurs before another machine (B) that was told to render frame one has not completed its render then the staticgeo will not be available for frame 2. But even that might be wrong because computer B will not have access to the assets created on computer A.

Prof Malcolm Kesson


unfortunately, there is no solution to this because of the way that the renderfarm manages frames being rendered.

[dhernand]

NP, If you want to avoid having to pre cache I think the solution of symlinking the renderman/<shotname> to temp will work

[jlaird21]

Renderman dropping objects when rendering. The current solution is two steps, sometimes you only need to run the first step and sometimes both are required.
Step 1: Go to Render settings --> RenderMan/Ris --> Advanced tab --> RIB Options --> Check Flatten

If that doesn't fix the problem you will need to generate .rib files

Step 2: Open up the script editor and write:

rman genrib

and run this command. Sometimes this takes a few minutes and will generate your scenes .rib files. This should now solve your problem