EXR and distributed rendering.

[Craig Ramsay]

I'm wondering if any of you guys have ever managed to render directly to EXR from Vray while using distributed rendering? I seem to be able to render direct to EXR if I render without DR, but as soon as I switch on DR I get empty EXR files and an error saying something about not being able to write tile to EXR file.

 

Any ideas?

[Jason Matthews]

I get the same thing. I'm interested in finding out why.

[BrianKitts]

I do it all the time using DR without problems, in Max 2011 design rendering to the max buffer, not the vray buffer. If I render to a vray buffer I still get an EXR, but only the diffuse channel gets written into the file, no extra render elements.

[cgrant3d]

The 3ds Max EXR plugin was changed in one of the subscription updates. I know we've had that error in the past and if I recall it was because the workstations / nodes had different EXR plugins. Something along those lines.