Before transferring any Maya project files to the shared file storage on the BK Renderfarm make sure your project is set in Maya and that the scene file and texture files reside in the correct folders (resp. scenes and sourceimages) under the project folder.

Check in Maya if the current project has been set to the folder you expect. Open the Project Window.

In this example the name of the project folder is MyMayaProject and this will be the folder with its contents that you will copy to the shared file storage of the BK Renderfarm.

Note that files (e.g. textures) outside the project folder cannot be ‘seen’ by the BK Renderfarm and therefore will not be rendered.

To be sure that your texture files do reside in the sourceimages folder within the set project folder, you will check in the Hypershade if the path to the texture files is relative to the project folder (e.g. sourceimages/bricks.png) and does not point to a location outside the Maya project folder or has a absolute path like C:\Users\username\Documents\maya\projects\MyMayaProject\sourceimages\bricks.png.

If the path to the texture files is not relative, you need to fix those before copying the Maya project folder to the shared file storage of the BK Renderfarm. As mentioned earlier the BK Renderfarm is not able to access files outside the shared file storage.

• Login with user maya_user (no password) to open the Dashboard.
• Click on  Submission.

• Under the General tab, set a job name and choose Maya Arnold as engine.

• Optionally add renderfarm_gpu if you need your renders to use Arnold GPU.
  Check Autodesk support for supported features and known limitations.

• Open tab Maya Arnold and select your Maya file. Click on the three dots to navigate to your Maya file.

• Click on the triangles to unfold R: Drive and subsequent folders to select the Maya file in the scenes folder of the Maya project.
• Click Select to return to the Maya Arnold tab.

Now you can see that fields Project directory and Frames destination are automatically filled out.

• Enter which frame(s) you want to render. For an animation enter a start frame number and an end frame number like in this example (1-10).
  For a single image it would be in general frame 1. However, if you want to render a still from an animation it could be another frame number.
• Click on Submit to start the render job. Your job will immediately start if a render node is available.

• After a successful submission a green bar on top will show your job name and an ID number of your submitted job.