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  • VRay 5 Distributed Rendering

    Hey all. I've put in a ticket to Chaos Group Support but I didn't know if someone might be able to guide me a little faster.

    I've set up a new mini render farm in my office with 4 PCs. 1 for the client and the other three as slaves. I picked a scene I had made previous and put in the PCs to the Distributed rendering dialogue, it found all three and I double checked the IP addresses and that the DR Spawners on each one were working fine.
    Started the render and one of the PCs refused to join. Immediate connection time out. I know that my PC and that one can communicate fine because I am using remote desktop to access it and installed max and Vray through that. I went through the trouble shooting page on the Chaos Group resources and nothing immediately jumps out as wrong.
    I tried the scene solo on that rogue PC and it worked fine. I even used that machine as a client to render and again it connected to the 2 newer PCs on my network but not the one I use as a workstation.

    Any ideas?

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    Before attempting to DR, did you render a single (non DR) frame off on each node using backburner?

    Not sure if it is still required in 5, but it used to be the case...
    Set V-Ray class properties en masse with the VMC script
    Follow me for script updates: @ollyspolys

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    • #3
      Originally posted by olly View Post
      Before attempting to DR, did you render a single (non DR) frame off on each node using backburner?

      Not sure if it is still required in 5, but it used to be the case...
      No I haven't! I shall give that a go now.

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      • #4
        Doesn't need to be anything fancy - just a box will do.
        You only need to do it once, when adding a new node or version of max - not every time you DR...
        Set V-Ray class properties en masse with the VMC script
        Follow me for script updates: @ollyspolys

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        • #5
          --UPDATE-- Right, seems my network security might be to blame. Using Backburner, the two PCs that were no problem again connected instantly. the one that is causing problems was throwing up error 0000274C which is typically a firewall or some other security measure blocking things. I've poked the IT dept. at my company so hopefully they can do something about allowing the connection.

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