very strange render node problem

[leotchest]

One of my render nodes is rendering the scene but with the completely wrong camera angle.
The scene is rendering using a standard max 2017 physical camera. everything works OK with the host computer and the other nodes. However, just one of my nodes is rendering a completely different part of the scene - as if there were another camera it was rendering from / or rendering a different frame. Its a totally random camera angle that appears on the node. I thought maybe the camera was moving, but i made sure the scene is at frame 0 & anyhow the camera was never animated.
I had previously had some trouble with this node not connecting for DR - i actually just did a fresh OS install and reinstalled Max & vray. i cant understand what the heck could be wrong - is there another way to reset it ? are there any scene files stored somewhere on the node that i can delete ?

[jacksc02]

are all the 3dsmax service packs the same?

[leotchest]

yes they are all SP2

[Morbid Angel]

yes they are all SP2

Yeah there is a problem there which I experience too often. Try setting all 4 viewports to your render camera before doing DR.

[leotchest]

sounds like an idea worth trying ! i tried running 3dsmax as a trial on the node and it crashed every time i tried to do anything with it - so maybe the computer was a bit messed up. doing a win10 reset now - at least they made full resets nice'n easy !

[Morbid Angel]

I see, that's probably and issue. You should be able to start 3ds max and load the scene manually if it fails that is the problem worth fixing first of all.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Does the issue exists if you replace the PhysicalCam with Standard Camera or perhaps the old V-Ray Physical Camera?
What about exporting the scene and submitting it via V-Ray Standalone?

[leotchest]

well in the end i just decided (since its so easy with Windows 10) to do a complete reformat & reinstall of the OS - and now its working perfectly again. no idea what went wrong before - it was very strange - but there was a software glitch of some kind.....