It’ll ask for the MAC address and name of your machine. You can do this by logging into your account on and going to “Manage Products and Downloads” and selecting “Generate A Network License File”from the Arnold drop down menu. Hold the ‘Option/alt’ key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch.In Terminal, paste the following: defaults write com.Open Terminal found in Finder > Applications > Utilities.You will need to do this to be able to see some of these folders where the installation is taken place. Reveal the hidden folders and documents in your Finder You will need to be on Apple macOS High Sierra 10.13, Apple macOS Sierra 10.12 or Apple Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.Ģ. This will be installed on the server computer. So here is various instructions gathered from different parts of the Autodesk support site and placed in ONE list, with a few comments and additions here and there from myself. I have just switched the render farm over to this system and had some trouble getting all the required information I needed in one place as many instructions have a certain amount of assumed knowledge.

When I run the main script he opens the mayapy.exe program, but when I want to render a frame then I get an error saying Failed to register renderer 'arnold' even when I have imported arnold and loaded the 'mtoa.mll' plugin.As of version 5.0.1 Arnold requires that the license server is using the Autodesk flexnetserver system instead of the RLM system previously used by Arnold. NewLyr = cmds.createRenderLayer(n=layername,empty=True,makeCurrent=True)Ĭmds.editRenderLayerMembers(layername,xforms)ĪrnoldRender(1, 1, True, True,'camera1', ' -layer' + newLyr)Ĭmds.setAttr('defaultArnoldDriver.ai_translator', 'png', type='string')Ĭmds.setAttr('defaultArnoldDriver.pre', 'file_name', type='string')ĪrnoldRender(1920, 1080, True, True,'camera1', ' -layer' + newLyr) MassAddRenderLayer(filenames, renderLayerToAdd)Īnd this is the script that is called for: import sysįrom import arnoldRender Print 'added new layer %s to %s' % (out,filename)įilenames = Print 'error opening file: %s' % (filename) Maya = subprocess.Popen(mayaPath+' '+scriptPath+' '+filename+' '+layername,stdout=subprocess.PIPE,stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

ScriptPath = 'C:/Users/Rik/Desktop/CreateNewLayerWithMeshesForBatchRenderPurpose.py'ĭef massAddRenderLayer(filenames, layername): # replace scriptPath with the path to the script you just saved MayaPath = 'C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/bin/mayapy.exe' # replace mayaPath with the path on your system to mayapy.exe This is the main script: import maya.cmds as cmds I followed the to open a maya scene without the UI.

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