V-Ray + Forest Pro + Onyx Trees

[Claudio Branch]

I am trying to create a large amount of forestation, but running into some issues. Itool's Forest Pro will distribute billboard trees very nicely and also allows you to switch out the planes with referenced geometry (mesh).

 

So I created an Onyx Tree with the generator, brought it into Max and exported it out as a V-Ray mesh (proxy) and finally referenced the mesh to replace my tree planes in Forest Pro.

 

For some reason, I am getting this error message:

 

"an error has occured in the network renderer and it is terminating"

 

I did some trouble-shooting and discovered that V-Ray had no issue rendering the single tree being referenced, but did not seem to be able to render my scene when using the same tree as a reference mesh within Forest Pro.

 

Ironically, it would render out the forest scene if the reference tree wasn't a V-Ray proxy!

 

What gives?