Can some one explain these errors?

The errors mean that you have not properly configured mental ray satellite.

If you're having problems rendering, you should not use mental ray satellite until you've figured out the other problems first, and you should troubleshoot satellite rendering with a simple, but sufficiently large scene.







Michiel
http://www.thnkr.com

I'm pretty sure the hotfix isn't going to do anything (it fixes four unrelated bugs). You need to consider that mental ray satellite will default to port 7003 and will probably still render; it's not a bug, merely a misconfiguration.

It's not clear to me if your scene renders if you don't use satellite. Does it?

Michiel
http://www.thnkr.com

I rendered locally on my machine here are the errors again...


Starting "/Applications/Autodesk/maya2011/Maya.app/Contents/bin/maya"

Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'mentalrayItemsList'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'mentalrayGlobals'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'miDefaultOptions'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'miDefaultFramebuffer'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'mib_glossy_reflection1'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'miContourPreset'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'Draft'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'DraftMotionBlur'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'DraftRapidMotion'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'Preview'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'PreviewMotionblur'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'PreviewRapidMotion'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'PreviewCaustics'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'PreviewGlobalIllum'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'PreviewFinalGather'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'Production'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'ProductionMotionblur'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'ProductionRapidMotion'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'ProductionFineTrace'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'ProductionRapidFur'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'ProductionRapidHair'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'mia_material1'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'mia_material4'; preserving node information during this session.
Warning: line 1: Unrecognized node type for node 'mia_material5'; preserving node information during this session.
File read in 17 seconds.
Result: /Users/kristisendlewski/Desktop/MAYA_Projects/LAESI_AUTH/scenes/LAESI_TEXT_FINAL_OUT4__56696.mb
Error: The renderer mentalRay is not registered yet.
Error: Scene /Users/kristisendlewski/Desktop/MAYA_Projects/LAESI_AUTH/scenes/LAESI_TEXT_FINAL_OUT4__56696.mb failed to render.

An ideas.. obviously the hot fix did not work...

Hi Michiel,

You have to forgive me I am new to Maya, and I will try that out. Do we have to do that for every mental ray render?

I'll let you know how it works.

Kristi

For my own personal benefit hat does that line of code do?

Hi, Kristi I was wondering if you found a solution to your rendering problem. Turns out I have the *exact same problem.* MR used to work just great until it just stopped working, though I can use Maya to render out single frames in MR.

Best,
-Rick

Hey!! I JUST ran into this problem myself and I did some googling and it lead me to this thread as well as a few others. I was unable to find anything helpful on the net so I tried a few things myself and I know that Maya likes to write random data into scripts and preferences sometimes causing a whole slew of glitches and issues that can change tools and render settings so I decided to delete my maya folder in My Documents and BAM it started rendering like normal again.

Just delete the maya folder in your My Documents and it should work. If you have custom scripts or tool bars you should save them out first!!!

Let me know if this helped at all!