Hi there With Yeti We can prevent a computer/user from checking out a Yeti licence by setting up a Windows environment variable and setting the interactive to 0 Is there a way to do the same thing in Ornatrix ? reasons are that Ornatrix is widely installed across a few computers for rendering but they take the ornatrix license from the person that actually wants to use it. thanks Pete |
| This is not possible currently. One workaround is to install the Demo version just to open scenes with Ornatrix, without editing, but the Demo will damage some Ornatrix attributes if you save the scene back, so it works just for "read-only" scene opening. We will consider modifying the commercial version to load scenes without a license and only ask for a license if you try to edit Ornatrix attributes (that's how Ornatrix for 3dsMax works), but it will take some non-trivial changes. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| thx for the reply Ivan. Since these workstations are also render nodes I don't think installing the demo version will work for us to solve this issue. Thx for producing such a great product. Lots of things to like compared to Yeti |
| Rendering on the command-line is not a problem, neither with the Demo nor the commercial version. Rendering only reads scenes, doesn't save them, so the Demo won't damage anything. And the commercial version doesn't ask for a license when running Maya in batch mode. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| thx for the reply Ivan. Im sorry I didn't reply earlier but I've been busy accross production. I am getting strange behavior when trying to render shots through deadline using Maya 2023 & Redshift. I have two nodes that render fine and another two that refuse to render hair on anything but the first frame they are assigned. After that, they render all the geo but no ornatrix. It's frustrating to be so close. I'm using the latest V4 stable version. Im rendering to deadline via Maya Batch and I'm not baking any cache data as there are no sims. Attached is an example of the characters - so fur and feathers. Any ideas what might causing the render to fail ? I'm not using a local licence server and turned off all firewalls to problem solve 
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| We've had reports about problems with Deadline in the past, we can't do much about that, it's usually related to Deadline settings or usage. We can only suggest general troubleshooting, like first try to render the scene locally on the failing node, see if anything's missing (some plugin or some assets, maybe a referenced scene), check for error messages, etc. Once it renders locally in Maya, try to render with Maya Batch but without Deadline. If it works without Deadline, figure out what's missing in Deadline to work properly. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
| Hi Ivan. Yes i can confirm the scene runs locally perfectly on the failing node. I'll review the rest of your suggestions. there is zero chance it is a licensing issue ? I only own one licence but you have an excellent render only policy. ( yeti is restricted to 3 render nodes per licence ) also would it perhaps help if i installed the render licence server locally ? |
| If you run the plugin in Maya Batch only, it doesn't even try to acquire a license. Ivan Kolev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.) E-mail: ivan.kolev at ephere dot com Discord: ikolev |
