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  • Vray and Krakatoa Atmospheric Effect

    Heyho.
    I hope this is the correct forum to put this question. We were approached with a new project where we have to use krakatoa in addition to vray. We would have one of those krakatoa wispy thingies we all know fly around a glass flacon in perfect darkness and illuminating the flacon with its reflection/refraction. Since we can't get propper reflection and refraction with krakatoa particle renders we are trying to cheat those with making use of the krakatoa atmospheric effect which allows renderer like vray to render those particles as voxels the characteristics you set up with magma flow included.

    Now to my actually question the voxels render just fine on my main workstation but in DR mode the slaves won't pick it up and I get holes in my render. Thinkbox says in theory DR should work because krakatoa doesn't care how its accessed. Sadly like I mentioned in practice it doesn't work and they responded that its probably nothing they can do about it. So is this example something vray would need to support?
    Cheers,
    Oliver

    https://www.artstation.com/mokiki

  • #2
    Are you sure the render slaves can access any external particle files successfully (same thing like with texture maps)?

    Best regards,
    Vlado
    I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

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    • #3
      Yes. I tried putting the dongle inside one of the slaves and render it directly. It worked perfectly.
      Cheers,
      Oliver

      https://www.artstation.com/mokiki

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      • #4
        Does it work on the render slave through 3dsmaxcmd.exe? Also are you running the DR spawner as a service?

        Best regards,
        Vlado
        I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

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        • #5
          I didn't try it through 3dsmaxcmd.exe yet and I had the spawner running directly. (Not as a service)
          Cheers,
          Oliver

          https://www.artstation.com/mokiki

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          • #6
            Just tried to render it through 3dsmaxcmd.exe on my main workstation and it didn't work. It ignores the atmospheric effect too.
            Cheers,
            Oliver

            https://www.artstation.com/mokiki

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            • #7
              Originally posted by ralphr View Post
              Just tried to render it through 3dsmaxcmd.exe on my main workstation and it didn't work. It ignores the atmospheric effect too.
              What do the Thinkbox guys say about that?

              Best regards,
              Vlado
              I only act like I know everything, Rogers.

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              • #8
                Didn't hear back from them yet. I'll come back to you as soon as I hear anything.
                Cheers,
                Oliver

                https://www.artstation.com/mokiki

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                • #9
                  Just heard back from them. They send it to the developing team. Seems like vray is innocent. If anything new developes I update this thread. Thanks vlado
                  Cheers,
                  Oliver

                  https://www.artstation.com/mokiki

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