Fusion 9 Linux Render Node

Good afternoon Forum.

After a morning of trying many options, I got a Linux node to render some PNGs.

I found the following limitations:

a) If you use any font, it must be available in exactly the name name and with the same options as the font defined in the Comp.

b) The images formats seem to be the only valid output options. I tried PNG, HDR, RAW and various others. You can change the name of the output file series just before submitting the Comp. It's quite difficult to get exactly the same path definitions across Linux and Mac.

c) Both the software and OpenGL renderers work for me.

So here's the questions:

i) Is there any way to find a detailed log? "Incorrect Argurment" is not particularly helpful as a message, in this case trying to output H264:

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12/Aug/17 12:21:10 "/Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp" stopped at frame 0 (0h 0m 0.12s)
12/Aug/17 12:51:19  - andy-all-series assigned to /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp
12/Aug/17 12:51:19  - andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) is loaded & ready to render /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp
12/Aug/17 12:51:19    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) is assigned frame 0 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp
12/Aug/17 12:51:19    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1): Saver1 failed to write to "/Renders/TestRender.mov" ("/Renders/TestRender.mov") frame 0: Invalid argument
12/Aug/17 12:51:19    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1): Saver1 failed at time 0
12/Aug/17 12:51:19  = ERROR: andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) *failed* frame 0 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp
12/Aug/17 12:51:19 andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) has been reassigned
12/Aug/17 12:51:19  - andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) closed the comp /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp.
12/Aug/17 12:51:19  + andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) disconnected, did 0 frames of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/TestRenderNode.comp

It would be great to get Quicktime output to work.

Regards



Andy

So getting on to more useful renders, I started to increase the complexity of the Compostions I'm sending to the Linux node.

It would appear that some materials have issues:

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12/Aug/17 14:30:30  - andy-all-series assigned to /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:31:57  - andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) is loaded & ready to render /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:31:57    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) is assigned frame 0 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:31:57    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) is assigned frame 1 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:33:56    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1): Renderer3D1:  fatal error - failed to activate mtl "MtlBlinnGL3D" on "defaultMat"
12/Aug/17 14:33:56    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1): Renderer3D1:  Render aborted.
12/Aug/17 14:33:56    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1): Saver1 cannot get Parameter for Input at time 0
12/Aug/17 14:33:56    andy-all-series (10.2.0.1): Saver1 failed at time 0
12/Aug/17 14:33:56  = ERROR: andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) *failed* frame 0 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:33:56 andy-all-series (10.2.0.1) has been reassigned

So I thought I'd set up a Mac to do this as a Render Node, and got this issue:

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12/Aug/17 14:53:41  - localhost assigned to /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:54:48  - localhost (127.0.0.1) is loaded & ready to render /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:54:48    localhost (127.0.0.1) is assigned frame 0 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:54:48    localhost (127.0.0.1) is assigned frame 1 of /Volumes/Arcea18TB/StructureSynth/FusionComps/Grinder.comp
12/Aug/17 14:54:51  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (24 left)
12/Aug/17 14:54:54  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (23 left)
12/Aug/17 14:54:57  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (22 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:00  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (21 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:03  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (20 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:06  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (19 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:09  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (18 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:12  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (17 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:15  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (16 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:18  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (15 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:21  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (14 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:24  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (13 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:27  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (12 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:30  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (11 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:33  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (10 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:36  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (9 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:39  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (8 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:42  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (7 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:45  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (6 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:48  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (5 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:51  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (4 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:54  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (3 left)
12/Aug/17 14:55:57  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (2 left)
12/Aug/17 14:56:00  + localhost (127.0.0.1) missed a heartbeat (1 left)
12/Aug/17 14:56:03  + localhost (127.0.0.1) has lost heartbeat - removing

Regards


Andy