Problem with VRay and Region net render

[bojo5150]

I recently purchased VRay and been having problems with the Region net render function(split scanline rendering of a single image across my 12 machine farm) in max. It just takes WAY to long to render. If I render the scene on my single PC it takes about 3hrs. & 30 min. but when I send it to my 12 machine farm it takes about 24hrs to complete. I'm wondering if there's some setting or something I don't know about that will make it run faster. Someone please help!

[RErender]

A saved imap or bucket mode should help

[bojo5150]

ok, will any IR map work?

[RErender]

No, It would have to be specific to the camera. You can use the option to only render the irradiance pass and have it autosave. Then just switch to use saved map and send it for network render.

I would try Setting it to bucket mode first this will only cal'c the GI for each individual slice so it is not doing it for the whole scene 10 times over. if the slices do not match exactly in lighting then you will have to up the irradiance settings a bit.