Hello I’ve finally got round to trying out Crowdrender, it seemed to work OK till I tried a multi layer EXR render, it does the first frame then stops with the following message- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/ui_operators.py", line 1106, in modal AssertionError location: <unknown location>:-1 I had enabled the ‘enable layers/passes checkbox, but still no joy, it seems to lock up Blender as well. When I hit the ‘make compositor nodes’ button I get this error as well- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/ui_operators.py", line 114, in invoke File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/ui_operators.py", line 120, in execute File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/recombine_multi_exr.py", line 376, in create_renderlayer_nodes File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/recombine_multi_exr.py", line 209, in create_node_network KeyError: 'bpy_prop_collection[key]: key "local:0001.exr" not found' location: <unknown location>:-1 I’ll try the scene with a simple combined saver and see if it works without passes/layers... Also I can’t activate the addon at all on one of my machines: an old Asus laptop (i7-3610QM CPU / 16Gb ram / GT630M GPU / Win10 Home), I get the following when I try to hit the enable check box in User Prefs once I've installed Crowdrender- Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 350, in enable mod.register() File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\__init__.py", line 99, in register cr_source.register() File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\__init__.py", line 76, in register cr_version.register() File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\bl_2_79\__init__.py", line 1020, in register initialiser.register_package() File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\bl_2_79\__init__.py", line 292, in register_package self.cr_import() File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\bl_2_79\__init__.py", line 225, in cr_import from . import settings File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/settings.py", line 46, in <module> File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/utils.py", line 45, in <module> File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\lib\Win64\zmq\__init__.py", line 47, in <module> from zmq import backend File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\lib\Win64\zmq\backend\__init__.py", line 40, in <module> reraise(*exc_info) File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\lib\Win64\zmq\utils\sixcerpt.py", line 34, in reraise raise value File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\lib\Win64\zmq\backend\__init__.py", line 27, in <module> _ns = select_backend(first) File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\lib\Win64\zmq\backend\select.py", line 26, in select_backend mod = __import__(name, fromlist=public_api) File "C:\Users\mark\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\scripts\addons\crowdrender\lib\Win64\zmq\backend\cython\__init__.py", line 6, in <module> from . import (constants, error, message, context, ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found. Is there something wrong with the spec of the Asus machine to cause this?
The other 2 machines I'm using (so far) are as follows-
HP Z800, 2 x X 5680 CPU, 88Gb RAM, 2 x GTX970 GPU, Windows 10 Pro
MacbookPro (late 2013), i7-4850HQ CPU, 16Gb RAM, GT750M GPU, Windows 10 Home
All machines running Blender 2.79.
It installs & enables on both, so just the Asus is a non-starter, I'm waiting for a PCIe riser to arrive so I can bodge an external GPU (Quadro FX5800) onto my Dell R510 and try that as well (I also need a GPU to use it as a Fusion render node!).
Cheers
Mark
Hi Mark,
I've responded to you via e-mail, the gist is that you need to update your Asus machine with a windows update and I also just want to check if you've got the latest version as I can see that the version you might be using based on our records could be older than the current 0.1.2 release.
Looking forward to hearing back from you :D
Just tried the first scene again with combined pass only into a TIFF output, fairly much the same issue with this message-
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jamesmac/Desktop/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/crowdrender/src/cr/ui_operators.py", line 1106, in modal
AssertionError
location: <unknown location>:-1
This time the first frame rendered did save an image (it did save a single EXR the first time, but it didn't seem to contain much, it was only 180Kb), the TIFF it saved did have the rendered image, but only the first of the sequence and the error above...
Cheers
Mark