Nick Wood

Hi,

We're trying to get PDG going on the farm. Some early success was a pleasant surprise, but results are inconsistent.

Tasks often error with:

Timed out waiting for MQ connection file at //location.xyz/pdgmq_server.txt

Absolutely, that file isn't being written to disk. At least not consistently, sometimes it appears and the task completes successfully. So the same config yields varied results. We've also tried limiting new submissions to boxes that have been previously been successful, no dice.

On the deadline side the job reports feature:

Task rendering stopped due to external cancellation.

Something along the lines of a timeout being too short? All speculation at this point.

Any information about where to look next would be well received!

Cheers,

H19.5.435 and DL 10.1.21.6.

I've had a few occasions recently where I've attached Vellum cloth pieces to hair curves.

The typical distance constraints for attaching the cloth haven't been quite right, leaving it with an obvious tendency to rotate or spin around the curve.

The problem I've broadly solved with additional geometry. Branches from the main curve maintain their orientation while giving the cloth something to attach to. This works, but it strikes me that there are likely less convoluted methods of achieving the same result.

I've attached a clip of a spinning constraint, versus not spinning branches.

How wrong am I?

Cheers,

Edit
I should qualify that the “Yes” label in the video implies yes that you're looking at the “good one”, not the one with the spinning constraints.

Wowzers. @pdg_output in a file parm I'd clocked, so of all the things to miss!

Thank you so much.