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Hi Everyone, I have been asked by a client to create a 360 degree render... similar to this of the apple iphone - http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/#gallery02 The rendering will be of a modern light fitting product. Anyone have any ideas how to do this? Thanks!

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Ok cool I'll update it. Anyone got any good tips on avoiding the vieport slowness? Or is that just a matter of getting a better graphics card?

Hi everyone, This may sound like a pretty obvious question....but I am having issues with 3ds max 2009 getting very slow in only slightly complex scenes (350 000 polys).... and then sometimes when I pan or zoom in the viewport max crashes completely! Usually these scenes contain a few vray proxies of pretty complex trees or cars etc...not sure if that effects it? I am using 3ds max 2009 64 bit, vista sp1, vray.... quad core Q6600, 8GB RAM and a GEFORCE 8800GT graphics card. Could this be a problem with the graphics card as the more objects are visible in the viewport...the more it slows down. And if I use wireframe for all viewports it doesn't happen? Any tips ot knowledge in this area would help as I'm not really sure whether its the complexity of the scene that is causing the slowness or if its a gpu related issue? Surely the nvidia 8800gt could handle more complex scenes than this without probelms? Thanks!

Cheers for you response alvstel, I have double checked that all maps etc are accessible to all machines and that doesn't seem to be the problem. In the test rendering that I attached with this thread...there were no maps, just colours... and it was still getting it confused. Is there any other solution besides restarting the vray spawner on each machine?

Hi, I have just set up vray distributed rendering. I am having 2 problems that I urgently need help with please!: 1. When I press render on my workstation, on the render node with vray spawner loaded vray comes up with this vray warning "This file was created with an older version of the vray renderer. etc etc" and I have to press the ok button to get it to work. And YES - the version of vray are identical on each machine (the exact same install). Please help? 2. Sometimes the render node machines (slaves) render the wrong thing in all their buckets while my workstation always renders what is supposed to render. I have attached and image that demostrates this...the object has been changed from red to yellow but the slave machines don't render that change So if I make any small change in the scene...the workstation buckets render it correctly but the slaves buckets render it wrong. I have tried saving the scene and then pressing render but this makes no difference. Could anyone help please...I'm desperate! Cheers

Hi everyone, I'm just about to buy a couple of new computers to join a couple that I already have to make a render farm. I am new to distributed rendering and I will be using 3ds max 2009 and vray 1.5sp2 for the rendering and intend on using vray distributed rendering to set it all up. I will be rendering a small animation and the 2 computers that I have now are: 1. desktop - intel quadcore q6600 , 8gb ram, 64 bit, windows vista ultimate 2. hp hdx laptop - dual core, 4gb ram, 64 bit, windows vista ultimate The 2 new render farm computers I intend to get will have: intel i7 860, 8gb ram and basically just low cost for everything else. They will be used only as a render farm for now. My questions are these: A. Given that the 2 computers I already have are running vista 64 bit, should I install vista 64 bit on the new render farm computers or is it fine to use windows 7 or even xp? b. With the 2 new computers are there any other important things to consider? ie graphics card, hdd etc etc? it is my understanding that for render farms the cpu and ram are the most important and everything else doesn't really matter..is that right? c. Is that a good choice for the 2 new computers? Or would the i7 920 be a better option? d. Because the ram on the hdx laptop is only 4gb would I be better off leaving it our of the render network? I read somewhere that in vray settings the dynamic memory limit should only be set to as much as the amount of ram in the computer with the least ram in the farm....which would be the laptop as all the others would have 8gb. Or would having the extra 2 cores from the laptop be of more benefit than having to not use 4gb ram from all the other machines? Anyway, I know there are a few questions here but I would love to hear your response!! Cheers

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