color correct problem

[jonnybefree]

hi there,
we've rebuild our renderfarm, max8 sp3.
installed all plugs and so on,
but when render over network the color-correct plugin can't found.
allways saying "missing dll color correct".
rendering local on these machines works without problems.
the *.dlm is still in the plugins folder from max, but he can't found.

do we have to relink any pathes or something like that?

best regards
jonas

[kimgar]

i'm also using colorcorrect, without any problems. all our nodes have a local plugin.ini that points to a global plugin.ini.

...this way all nodes will always have the same paths and plugins - might not solve your problem, but it's a good practice anyways...

[panthon]

i'm also using colorcorrect, without any problems. all our nodes have a local plugin.ini that points to a global plugin.ini.

...this way all nodes will always have the same paths and plugins - might not solve your problem, but it's a good practice anyways...

Could you elaborate on how to implement that on the network? Steps involved in modifying the plugin.ini to point to global plugin ini..

Thanks

[kimgar]

sure, first you will need to put all your plugins and a remote plugin.ini on a server accessible by all rendernodes.

the remote plugin.ini is basically the same as your original, except that all paths need to be exchanged with the server path
example:

[Directories]
Additional MAX plug-ins=\\server\max\plugins
moreplugs = \\server\max\moreplugs

then you create a plugin.ini locally on all rendernodes which points to the above remote_plugin.ini:

[Include]
remotePlugins=\\server\max\remote_plugin.ini

...hope that makes any sense

[jonnybefree]

thats great
will try it, maybe it solves the problem.

thanks kimgar

[panthon]

Thanks for your answer!

We are going to try it too!

Do you think it would work with combustion plugins?

[kimgar]

no prob, glad to help - hope it helps you out...

...about combustion i'm not sure, i guess it would work if it has a similar .ini file....

i would love to do this to the 3dsmax.ini as well, but i have yet to find a solution to that...