Hello everybody,
I really got interested in this 'launcher' thing, as this is similar to
what I've done here. I too have mini py scripts that reads envvars from
configuration file, and launches maya.
However I was unable to boot maya on a machine, that had maya never
installed before. I downloaded all missing DLLs and set relevant paths,
but still, maya won't launch. Has anybody experience with such problem ?
Here's a fragment of conf file showing maya part (${SERVER} is an envvar
pointing to server keeping maya entire maya directory):
#maya
MF_SKIP_INSTALL_SHARED= 1
MAYA_LOCATION=//${SERVER}/RenderfarmConf/Apps/Maya/${PLATFORM}/2009ServicePack1
MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH=${DELIGHT}/maya/scripts;//hal/RenderfarmConf/Maya/scripts;${MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH}
MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH=${DELIGHT}/maya/plugins;//hal/RenderfarmConf/Maya/plugins/${PLATFORM}/2009;${MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH}
MAYA_HELP_URL=C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\docs\Maya2009\en_US
AW_JPEG_Q_FACTOR=85
PATH=//${SERVER}/RenderfarmConf/Apps/Maya/${PLATFORM}/2009ServicePack1/bin;${PATH}
I have to add, that under linux, this setup is fully functional. I have
no idea what maya needs to properly boot. I use dependency tracking tool
to find all missing DLLS and put them in maya/bin and system32 dirs.
any hints are greatly appreciated, as I have run out of ideas.
thanks
Michal Fratczak
Matt Estela pisze:
We use a launcher here, pretty useful. Tied into our asset tracking
system too, so anything rendered not only has a dependency graph of
the scenes and references used to create it, but versions of software,
versions of script paths, versions of libraries.... everything. Means
we never get stuck with the 'but this shot used to render!' problem,
as resurrecting an old shot also resurrects all the versions of all
the tools and scripts used when that frame ran.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Keir <keirr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes do the same thing,
Our version is a C# app that parses an xml launcher definition, sets
environmental variables, copies files and launches Maya.
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