Network render issue that makes no sense to me.

[victorwol]

Hi! I have several rendernodes, and all of the machines, including the master machine where I work, all have the same paths to the storage. I used a shared storage over fibre, so what is E:\ is E:\ also on all of the machines, and the cache is stored on that E:\ drive, so why would not work when is set to implicit, if that implicit path is the same on all of the machines? We are not sharing volumes over the network, we have no need for it. Going via the network would be a 1GigE thing, going directly to the volume is a 10 GigE thing since all the computer are connected with 10GigE cards... if I replace the path from implicit to E:\.......... it works, still gives me the warning. But it should work with implicit if the implicit of every machine is the same thing.


Thanks!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hello,

$(implicit) means the "phoenix frames" folder next to the max file, for example if your scene is
E:\scenes\untitled.max
the cache files will be written and read from
E:\scenes\untitled.max_Phoenix2_frames\...

When you do a network render, the scene files don't end up in E:\scenes\ on all machines, and instead they are copied into e.g. C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\backburner\Jobs\. When the scene is opened, it looks for its the cache files in this folder, as this is the meaning of $(implicit), but the caches are not there. This is the reason why you need to specify an absolute path for network rendering.

If the rendering works fine with an absolute path, you can check "Do not show again" on the warning and not worry about it. Usually network paths start with \\, but in case of a mapped drive, it's not a problem that the path looks like a local path.

[victorwol]

oh... you are right. Makes sense now.

Thanks!