distrisbuted render....hmmm

[obeth]

I have just tried starting vRays DR for the first time. I followed the instructions in the manual but the result differs somewhat to what's described in the manual.

When I come to the point where I press the render button I get a popup with the option to save the scene somewhere. If I do so nothing happens. If I don't do so nothing happens.

Does anyone know what's going on here??

[Long John]

max version?

[obeth]

oops...sorry. VIZ4

[gafl]

hi obeth !

Well, there is absolutly no problem in what you describe.
All is normal !

You must save the scene in order to be loaded on other computers.
This is not compulsive !
It works like that !


Bye
Gaël

[obeth]

I see, but shouldn't it start rendering. I just get a black VFB. Is there somewhere I have to save the scene to?

[gafl]

No, you can't render if your scene is not saved sorry
Just save your scene in a folder seen by all the computers of your
renderfarm.


Did you set up your distributed rendering as it is explained in the tutorial
topic of this forum ?
Do you have a commun folder recognize by your computers ?

If all that is ok, you should not have any problem after saving your scene.



Gaël

[obeth]

The scene is saved but when I hit render I get promted to save again. So when I save to a shared directory the manager says that the servers have finished rendering and I get an error message saying : "error:Reentrant call, possible exceptions" - whatever that means. The virtual frame buffer is blank and no render has taken place.

I followed the steps in the tutorial. I'm not sure if you are referring to a different tutorial that's online