distributed rendering problems

[hubert]

Hello everybody,

 

My first post here, and already loaded with problems :-|

 

I am getting some strange artifacts when rendering with Vray's DR ( ver 1.5 RC2 and Max8 ). If you take a look at the attached file, you can see that some buckets were not rendered correctly. It seems that it's a random problem generated by every server now and then. It looks like some light settings are being ignored...

 

The other problem I encountered with DR is that any 'pointcached' object in the scene is only visible to the main server machine. The other servers just dont see it. I figured I need to copy all my *.pts files ( this is where the pointcache information for the mesh is stored ) to a specific folder on every

server ( just like every bitmap from the scene needs to be in the 'BITMAPS' folder ), but don't know which one.

 

I wonder if anyone here has had similar problems.

 

 

thanks a lot for your help,

hubert

[Tyorl]

1 - About "Lighting Bug":

 

There are some questions to u - are u computing IrMap or LC? or u loading them from file? If "from file" please refer to the path to Irmap/LC if it pointing to local HDD others servers won't load them. try to make path as: \\Mainframe1\Project1\irmap.extension

 

2 - About "Local file/files":

 

Try to make all of the pathes to your files looking like I wrote above

 

3 - BTW:

 

Try using Backburner "Split Render" instead DR

[hubert]

Many thanks for the reply Alexander.

 

I am ussing IrMap ( high-animation ) and LC, but I am not loading from any external files.

 

I already solved the pointcache problem. The *pts files just weren't visible to all the servers. It's working now.

 

However, the artefacts is a different thing. I just found this thread on the chaosgroup forum:

 

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16648&sid=68115961067b05801d7c789593a8cca3

 

It seems that people get the same kind of problems. As of now, the only solution to get rid of it is to reset Max. Ineed, it works!

 

 

thanks again,

 

best regards,

 

hubert

[hubert]

Many thanks for the reply Alexander.

 

I am ussing IrMap ( high-animation ) and LC, but I am not loading from any external files.

 

I already solved the pointcache problem. The *pts files just weren't visible to all the servers. It's working now.

 

However, the artefacts is a different thing. I just found this thread on the chaosgroup forum:

 

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16648&sid=68115961067b05801d7c789593a8cca3

 

It seems that people get the same kind of problems. As of now, the only solution to get rid of it is to reset Max. Ineed, it works!

 

 

thanks again,

 

best regards,

 

hubert

[voltaire_ira]

hubert,

 

i have the same problems when using dr, the slave buckets are rendering differently from each other. when i tried a reset of max and loaded the same scene then hit render with dr, the buckets are rendering correctly!!!!

 

thanks very much for the info!!!