Mental Ray distributed bucket rendering - bucket colors are mis-matched

[rad_thundercat]

Hi there,

 

I'm just setting up another computer for DBR with 3ds max & Mental Ray. I've done this before at my old company with no problems.

 

However, in this case, the buckets coming from the slave computer are a different color than the buckets rendered locally.

 

I reset a fresh scene, put in a basic daylight system, and used Arch&Design material (no textures) on both the ground and teapot.

 

Both computers are 64-bit running Windows 7. Local computer has an Intel i7, the slave has an Intel i5.

 

Anyone know what's going on?

 

Thanks,

Andrew

 

- No DBR

- DBR

[Scott Dombrowski]

What version of Max? This was a bug in 2014, but was fixed in one of the service packs. A quick fix is to switch the Skylight Mode in the Global Illumination tab from "from IBL" to "from Final Gather". Or just install the latest SP.