VRay DR with Deadline 7 without "workstation mode"?

[armilla]

Hi all,

After many years of hit and miss experiences rendering though Backburner, I have finally got round to testing Deadline 7 on a 30 day trial. It's certainly a lot more powerful (and complicated) than BB, but essentially the main thing I'd like to use it for is to send DR jobs to just one of my two render nodes, with the 2nd node running the VRay DR spawner, so that both nodes render the same image. I can then use my workstation for other production tasks.

With Backburner, the set-up described above works fine (most of the time), but with Deadline the only way it works is if you use "Workstation mode" when submitting the job, which needs a full/workstation license of 3ds max on the node/slave you're sending the DR job to. Unfortunately, I only have the one license of max and that's on my Workstation, which defeats the object of sending a DR job to a slave so that I can work on something else. If you don't tick "Workstation mode", the slave renders alone, without DR kicking in. I've tried it with Deadline Slave running on the 2nd DR node and with VRay Spawner running without Deadline Slave.

Anyone found a way to do this?

I have seen this post below and the related post on the Thinkbox forum, but it doesn't help, as davexl ended up using the workstation mode:

http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...light=deadline

http://forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/v...p=58148#p58148

I'll post on the Thinkbox forum as well, but I thought someone here with a similar small set-up might have run across the same problem. I'm running max 2015 and VRay 2.50.01

Thanks.

[svetlozar.draganov]

In order to submit DR job to some other machine using Integrated Deadline script for 3ds Max, please use "Save servers in the scene" in Distributed Rendering options in the scene. This will keep the DR slaves IPs/Hosts as you set them in Distributed Rendering option and in this case you can avoid the option Workstation mode, which in fact is used mainly for debug purposes. Please note that using Integrated Deadline script for 3ds Max will make you able to use V-Ray with DR option enabled only if you add just one machine in Deadline's Slaves list. You will be able to engage this machine, and it will become DR server which will send the DR tasks to other machines from DR list in the scene.

However in Deadline 7 V-Ray Distributed Rendering is supported. If you use integrated VRay DBR submission scripts for 3ds Max (not the one from the Monitor) you will be able to start DR job and use your DR slaves - they will be engaged through Deadline. For more information please see Thinkbox help here:

http://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/pro...-vray-dbr.html

[m_hinks]

Hi

Are you sure that you can leave the "workstation mode" off as I've just tried and it didnt work. Deadlines sanity check also warns you that it has to be on. I send a task with it on and rendered with the slaves from the DR list, but of course opens 3ds max to do so. With it off, it renders without opening 3ds max but only renders locally. The buckets are shown with the machine name as iff the other machines are coming but they never do.

I'm running the latest beta for 7.1 encase this is a new feature to not need workstation mode.

Thanks,
Mark