3DS Max Vray Distributed Rendering - render server settings

[deanmaytrap]

hi there

 

our office finally got vray for 3ds max, along with a render node license. The problem, is that when rendering on the node, the render comes out much much much darker than the local workstation - 2 images attached show what im talking about.

 

When rendered with the local machine also running, it comes out as a patchwork of correct (local) and incorrect (slave) render squares.

 

what are we doing wrong?

[braddewald]

It seems like the slave doesn't have access to the texture maps - do a test on a flat texture and turn local host off in the DR settings to narrow down the problem.