Vantage Intermittently Working with Max

[jujubee]

I have a fairly simple scene. Vantage has been working for months.
Suddenly when I use Live Link, it'll send the scene to Vantage and render the first time.
But if I make any changes in Max, it no longer updates in Vantage.
If I close out Vantage then resend the scene from Max, all I get is the default Vantage sky and grey ground.

Tried reinstalling VRay, Vantage, License Serverm Graphics Drivers, disabling all firewalls, using different cards, changing ethernet adapters, checking DR and looking at licenses.
My licensing is a bit strange on Chaos - it shows several instances of Vantage trials and one infinite (which is active) license.

help please I'm in the middle of a project.
Thanks.

[jujubee]

I'm receivng these errors when I try to start VFP/IPR:

[19:43:39.057] Warning : Server dropped and there are no more render hosts that can work on the scene. Waiting for a host to connect...

[19:43:39.307] Warning : Render host 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1:20701) disconnected by client

[19:43:39.309] Warning : Server dropped and there are no more render hosts that can work on the scene. Waiting for a host to connect...

[19:44:24.500] Warning : Server dropped and there are no more render hosts that can work on the scene. Waiting for a host to connect...

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi jujubee,

Can you send us the vantage log from %AppData%\Chaos Group\Vantage?

Best regards,
Alexander

[jujubee]

I'm not finding it only some stuff under \leveldb\

Here's the only paths I see for AppData applying to Vantage:
c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Chaos Group\Vantage\QtWebEndine\Default\Local Storage\leveldb\
c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Chaos Group\Vantage\QtWebEndine\Default\ (multiple folders)
c:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Chaos Group\Vantage\cache\

One strange thing I noticed was that there were multiple sub-instances of QtWebEngine in the processes running and I see this also listed under your cache folder.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

Hi jujubee,

It should be located in \AppData\Roaming\Chaos Group\Vantage and not it \AppData\Local\Chaos Group\Vantage.

Best regards,
Alexander

[jujubee]

Think I have it working now. I completely uninstalled Vantage using BCUninstaller (takes out registry info, etc.) then reinstalled the latest version.
I also turned off one Cosmo preset which uses Chaos Scatter which I'm going to retest to see if it was causing issues.

[jujubee]

Okay. So I think I isolated the issue. I used the Pebbles preset from Cosmos on a few surfaces and the Random Distribution Count and the 2D - On Surfaces values were set high. I forget the exact values unfortunately.
When I Unhide the Pebbles, Vantage stops updating. When I hide them again, Vantage reloads then works again.

[Alexander.Atanasov]

This sounds like there is a lot of geometry and the export takes a lot of time, during which Vantage doesn't take updates.

[jujubee]

I've waited a VERY long time and nothing happens.
I've had much larger scenes and it behaves much differently. This was actually a pretty simple scene aside from the "pebbles."

[jujubee]

Just FYI I'm experiencing Vantage not even starting with a few of the lawn presets and stone presets from the Cosmos Browser.
Bringing the Max limit down can get it "talking" again.