Foam Splash Particle Size differs with DR rendering

[Joelaff]

I am using the latest nightly build ( if you know of one that does not have this issue let me know). 10/12/14

I am seeing much larger PHX Foam Splash particles when using Distributed Rendering. The local machine renders them at the correct size, but the ndoes render them quite big (possibly ten times).

I am going to try a farm render, rather than DR.

I need one of the nightlies for some other issues.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

[Joelaff]

I had been using the release version of 2.1 and it did not have this issue (though it had other issues with motion blur not staying consistent on a single held frame - Direct Frame option in the Simulator Input rollout.)

[Joelaff]

So it's not just DR. The other nodes render the foam bigger than the workstation. The workstation always renders smaller for some reason, even if it is rendering with 3dsmaxcmd.exe.

[Joelaff]

Is there a way to check the version on the workstation and the render nodes? I have reinstalled it on the workstation and a couple nodes.

The workstation says 2.20 revision 24510 even though I know I installed the nightly called build 25058

[Joelaff]

Figured it out!

I had a custom plugin path for the vrayplugins on the workstation. The installer was putting the latest Phoenix into the default location... Whew!

[Ivaylo Katev]

such a bug is 100% indication for different builds on the render nodes, would be good to display a warning, but this must be part of vray, phoenix has no connection to the dr machines

[Joelaff]

A warning would be really cool. If VRay could check and see if any plugins had differing versions that would be exceedingly helpful for anyone with a farm more than a few machines.

Thanks.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

This has already been added into our system but it is not implemented yet.