Distributed Rendering alert message window

[oligophant]

hi everyone, i'm having an annoying issue with DR on vray sp2, i have two pc's one is a i7 running on xp 64 and the other one is a core 2 duo on xp 32 both with 3dsmax2009 and vry sp2 (core 2 duo is the slave) , the problem is when a use DR a message pop up (pic related), what should i do? both versions of vray are correct, is there a check box that i missed?, on other scenes this is not a problem, i have to click ok on each machine every time a try DR if not, slave doesnt render

[oligophant]

i got this from vrayspwnerlog :

 

0: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] ========================== Starting new session ==========================

1: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] Got this module name: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\vrayspawner2009.exe

2: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] Got this INI file name: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\VRaySpawner.ini

3: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] *** ALERT! Could not open INI file: "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\VRaySpawner.ini". Using defaults.

4: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] --

5: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] Dumping current settings...

6: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] VRaySpawner temp dir: "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\network"

7: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] Application name (MAX/VIZ): "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\3dsmax.exe"

8: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] --

9: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] Process id is 4648 (0x1228)

10: [2009/Jun/28|16:58:29] Executing ""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\3dsmax.exe" -server C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2009\network\vraydummy2009.max"

 

i read about it on other sites and says that i have to create that VRaySpawner.ini file, do i have to validate that file on any other app?

[David Casenave]

i´m having exactly the same problem. does anybody knows a away to turn it off ????

[BrianKitts]

That error only occurs when are attempting to open a file that was created with a older version of Vray than what is on that specific system. All you have to do is open the file and save it over itself with the current version. (There is no magic button to turn the error off)

 

I've never gotten that to pop up on a DR node, but it makes it sound like you need to upgrade your workstation to the version on your DR nodes. You mentioned they are the same but this error points out that they aren't so that you can fix it.

 

Current version of Vray is 1.5 Sp3a, why would you operate on older versions when the updates are free?

Edited November 9, 2009 by BrianKitts

[Thablanch]

If you do have in your posession, let's say the version, forget about DR, or even Backburner....

If you have a legal version, send a Backburner job prior to a DR job to the slave machine, this should set the slave machine to have all required files to process a DR job.