Erikur200 Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I am new to DR. All my computers in the nework (4 of them) are reach by the vray DR system, no error message. BUT when I render many of the squares are lacking color (b&W) I quess you call the squares "buckets" The result are a picture with partly color and partly B&W All the buckets from the servers (not the main one) are B&W, the ones that the main computer di is fine. Have any of you any idea why this happen? I am suspecting a map problem, so i copied my maps catalog from the main computer to the other computer , i place the map at the same driveletter (D:) as the main computer. I even tried to map up so that the servers would pick up their maps from the main PC. Any help are very much appreciated. Erikur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 When using netrender with vray, you can send the materials over the network with the render job.. I am not sure if DR does the same thing.. never used it yet.. If you can send the materials with the render job, this will at least tell you if thats the problem. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 thank you for your answer andy . I don't think is possible to send materials with the job in DR. And to be very honest i didn't know that you could use vray with network rendering (backburner) . I tought that backburner or network rendering was ment for animations, or can you render a single image also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thablanch Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Vray DR is not like Backburner, you can not include maps. What you need to do is to make sure that all of the machines are seeing the same drive where the bitmaps are located, and access them via UNC path, and not through a mapped drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 When I was farming Vray renders I had it set up so one computer had a folder with all the files that would get used (GI files, bitmaps, proxy meshes, scene files and render output - though the last two aren't necessary), that was shared on a network and mapped to the same drive letter on all machines. Then every time a file is used, its path starts with the mapped drive letter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 I had or still have a problem with this. I have been on many forums, lots of different opiniuns about the cause. I discover that mapping up a drive like this \\192.168.1.100\Maps with a lot of catalogs in maps directory. But when I mapped a drive like this \\192.168.1.100\Maps\Meshmaps and put all the maps necessary for the scene in there, then it works almost. I have 4 PC's in my network, 3 them did do the job fine, while 1 didn't. The one that didn't is located behind 2 switch'es, in a way on another segment. When i took that one out everything worked perfectly ok. ;-) But have have not tried your suggestion. I will try it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Yeah, your computers definitely need to be able to access each other via Windows Networking - if you use Map Network Drive, you'll be able to see whether or not it's working and have it automatically mount the share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 I misunderstood a little :-) \\192.168.1.100\Maps is an UNC PATH but you said "access them through a UNC PATH". So what you say is that when i go into customize and user paths i will use a UNC PATH instead of browse to the catalog through the mapped drive. But could you explain the different? Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 Vray DR is not like Backburner, you can not include maps. What you need to do is to make sure that all of the machines are seeing the same drive where the bitmaps are located, and access them via UNC path, and not through a mapped drive. Yes you was correct. When i access the maps with an UNC PATC also the computer on the "other segment" worked. Thanks alot Thablanch Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I misunderstood a little :-) \\192.168.1.100\Maps is an UNC PATH but you said "access them through a UNC PATH". So what you say is that when i go into customize and user paths i will use a UNC PATH instead of browse to the catalog through the mapped drive. But could you explain the different? Erik Check again - two different methods from two different people Either method can work, and the UNC path involves a bit less setup. I like the mapped drive because it causes the nodes to mount the network share beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 I think UNC Path is better because if we map a drive so that it will be fixed, then if you are using one of the computers and the computer we have maped to is offline, it will be veeeery slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 i am also using mapped network, it works fine,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 12, 2007 Author Share Posted January 12, 2007 Now I am getting frustrated, everything works ok, suddently one of the computers start giving b&w pictures again. This must be a BUG. I have tried both mapped drive and UNC PATH. Could this be a speed issue, since the computer that will not work is behind two switch's ? I will try to move it inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 I discovered that if I am using ordinary materials and not Vray materials it's working fine. Anyone any idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 ya max default materials works fine with vray,, i dont think thats an issue, its all bout drive path,, make sure all ur maps r accessible from all ur client machines... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 14, 2007 Author Share Posted January 14, 2007 ya max default materials works fine with vray,, i dont think thats an issue, its all bout drive path,, make sure all ur maps r accessible from all ur client machines... Thanks anvaraziz, All the clients can access the maps, that I have checked. But now I discovered that even if I change the map of my background, the finish render contains the old map. How is that possible? I am not an expert, but could this be something with the Irradiance map? but the main computer are changeing the map. Erikur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 make sure ur saved irradiance file is also accessed from mapped drive.. drive letter of these mapped drive should be same on all machines,, pls re-check all the maps in material editor. + saved lightcache and ir map. lets say,, ur mapped drive letter is "P" then all ur client machine should have a mapped drive called "P" access maps and all from " P:\****\***** " it works fine... regards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 make sure ur saved irradiance file is also accessed from mapped drive.. drive letter of these mapped drive should be same on all machines,, pls re-check all the maps in material editor. + saved lightcache and ir map. lets say,, ur mapped drive letter is "P" then all ur client machine should have a mapped drive called "P" access maps and all from " P:\****\***** " it works fine... regards... Okay. I have to admit that I mapped as you say there but the driveletter was different on some of the clients. I will certaintly try that. Thanks again. I will let you know if this worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erikur200 Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 anvaraziz you are a genius Everything works fine now, thank you very much for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 u r always welcome dude... good to know u fixed it.. congrats... keep rendering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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