H16: Mantra 'cannot find geometry' render error?

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Hi,

In a couple of situations, all of a sudden Mantra throws me this error:
“mantra: Can't find geometry /obj/box_object1/normal1/output1” or something alike from the network tree.

One scene was some basic modeling on a cube, another is a simple scatter on a grid.

Not sure what's going on here….

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Was getting same error message, restarted the scene and it was working again. So not much luck in reproducing but something is definitely buggy there. Will try to reproduce the error if I can.
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Nope, unfortunately that doesn't work on my end.
For both scenes

I'll think a log a bug, and add both scenes to the report.

Something very weird is going on here


Edit: Got a quick reply from support, it has to do with spaces in your scenefile name. And ths is fixed in the new build.
So re-saving with underscores to remove the spaces in the file name also resolves the render error.
Edited by RobW - Feb. 27, 2017 10:37:09
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I can verify that the file name space issue was the problem for me as well.
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At least at my scene the error appeared to come up beacaus of the spaces in the scene file name.
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That fixed it for me too.
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I delete the space in filename,then it works.
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thanks sososososo much!!! p.s. never space in filename again
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Wow, reviving a almost six month old thread….

If spaces still gives you an error, please report this issue again, as it is a regression.
And yes, no spaces are better ;-)

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Still here.

Got it today, 16.5.323. No spaces in the filename itself, but spaces exist in the path. File renders fine when loading a local copy from the desktop.

Is this really still a thing in 2018?
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I also had a parenthesis in my filename and it threw an error, got rid of it and it works.
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