jafs00 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 I'm having some trouble with vray proxies, it's the first time I use them. When rendering with distibuted render, Only the host computer's buckest render the proxies, while the server computer's buckets ignore this geometry. The proxy files and textures are on a mapped network drive, so i guess all the computers on the network should be able to read them. I don't know what else to do.... Have I hit a limitation of some sort? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olbo Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Heya Julio, I'm just guessing here but maybe you've loaded the proxies locally ... I mean from a local drive and not from the mapped one and now all nodes try to find those local instead of the mapped drive. take care Oleg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jafs00 Posted July 30, 2006 Author Share Posted July 30, 2006 thanks a lot Oleg...that is exactly what happened!!! you are a life saver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olbo Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 You're very welcome Julio! take care Oleg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 if you use a UNC path to identify the proxies location on your network as a opposed to the mapped drive method all the machine will be able to find the required file, instead of having to copy the files onto all local machines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 if you use a UNC path to identify the proxies location on your network as a opposed to the mapped drive method all the machine will be able to find the required file, instead of having to copy the files onto all local machines Could you tell us how to do that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olbo Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Heya William, I guess it's pretty easy, ... just use \\myserver\resources\proxies\proxy instead of V:(mapped drive)\resources\proxies\proxy ... ;o)) take care Oleg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesTaylor Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 you need to do it as Oleg has suggested...... navigate to it via my network places - entire network - machine name - folder name etc and so on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker1 Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 The same is true for Vray HDRI files and for Vray proxies. You have to hard code the full UNC path manually each time you use one. If you do not and you look at your asset manager you will see them both listed under MISC. and they will not be UNC coded. To make it worse, MAX will not let you edit the paths in the asset manager, it must be done at placement time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 How about vray fur, displacement and vray plane, they don't seem to show up on DR, is there a reason for that ? Nevermind, displacements do show up, but not vray plane or fur ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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