Vray Distributed Render Problem

[Marco Manunta]

hi there!

 

i've a silly problem affecting my vray distributed rendering experience.

 

i've two machines. they're connected. they see each others when rendering.

 

the problem is that when i go to Asset Path window (shift+T) and i change the texture path like this (from C:\maps to \\mainpc01\maps) i lost the textures even in my main pc.

 

it acts like if i changed c:\maps with a custom folder which doesn't even exists. i can't understand why. I controlled a lot of times if the pc name was correct, and it was. (i just go in mycomputer, right click, proprieties, and check the pc name from there).

 

what i'm doing wrong ?

 

thanks in advance!

[paneli]

As far as I understand, you mainpc01 recognizes his root as (for example) d:/textures/cgaxis and not \\mainpc01\d\textures\cgaxis

 

I don't know how to solve this, as I solved it simple - invested in NAS.

[Marco Manunta]

yes...now i solved thanks to the new features in vray 3, but the problem is still alive...somewhere over the rainbow....

[Morne Erasmus]

OK this may seem like a silly question, but have you shared your maps folder?

if you can't see \\mainpc01\maps even from your mainpc01, then you may have skipped the part where you have to share the maps folder

(easiest is just to share it with "Everyone")

 

On your mainpc1, hold the start/flag button on your keyboard and at the same time press r

now type \\mainpc01\maps and press enter. If it comes up with an error then it's one of 3 things:

1) Your mainpc01 is actually called something else

2) You didn't correctly share the maps folder

3) firewall or network settings or even NO network is giving you hassles