Net render : Scene was unable to load?

[klower]

Hi everybody !
It's my firs post but I have watched this forum for long time. :>

I have strange problem with V-ray Net Render
My max is sending to clients my scene, and after that there is
info "scene failed to load".

My scene has 2,2 mb.
What I should do ?
Please help

[GALACTUS]

Hi

In your max netrender advanced settings change your "wait to" values to something like 70000, nad see if that helps. It could be that your clients are timing out.

[klower]

Hi , thx for answer. !!

I've got every value in minutes, and it's still "failed to load"

V-Ray can't render 1mb files or higher.
Small scenes are ok.

PS. I've got V-ray 1.09g and max5

[Biohazard]

The render clients are silent on many errors.
Do you have a pop-up when opening manually your scene ?

Some clues...

Be sure to have all the plugins duplicated on your servers, some will ask for an auth or a manual refresh. Most of them will work without a problem but anyways... The more exotic you get, the more risks you take.

Be sure to share all the bitmaps on a file server (handling more PCs that you've got in your farm) via UNC paths.

If you were checking for missing bitmaps, you can tell vray to pass thru (system setting).

Avoid to launch other apps on your servers. 1 Max server client and that's it.

Do some visual surveillance on the server when it's getting the new job. What happends ? (pop-ups, memory consumption, etc...)

Then, if it's not yet working, try a blue cube without any texture, correctly name the max file, then try a net render. What happends ?

2 cents...

[klower]

Yep , It's working !!!!
THANK YOU , THANK YOU ,THANK YOU ,THANK YOU ,THANK YOU
Very much.

I think the trouble was in the materials. I just saved the file with my library.
But now i s rendering but without my V-ray mat. and V-ray displ. Just standart max materials have been rendered. I've check "Search for missing bitmaps" but I have no errors in V-ray log.

And why only slave machine is rendering?

[Biohazard]

Wow, strange.

Are you sure that Vray is properly duplicated on to your servers ?
Ask your servers (properties) to log everything. You may see if a plug isn't initializing correctly during the max open (You'll find the info gathered into the monitor, or directly into the server's window).

By "do not render", do you mean the whole vraymtl slot isn't rendering (even it's color beneath without bitmap) ?

Try a simple scene with a cube, 1 vraymat and one NEW bitmap (anything that isn't already shared or copyed on your server.

Then when you launch the render, use "Include maps" (it will copy your maps on each servers). Heavy for big projects but usefull in your case.

What happends ? Is it rendering properly ?

Good luck.