Distributed Rendering Problem

[jim_dalgleish]

I must have missed a step, but I cannot get the distributed rendering to work between my two machines.

If this has been covered before, could someone please provide a link...?

I've installed 3ds and V-Ray on both machines. I start 3ds on one machine and make sure the Distributed Rendering options are set. I then launch the V-Ray DR spawner for 3ds Max on the other machine. When I start the render, it tells me that All Licenses for this product are engaged, yet when I check my account, I show a render node available but inactive:

Have I missed a step somewhere to activate the Render Node on my second machine? I thought it would automatically retrieve it once the DR spawner is started...?

Thanks

[stefan.isakov]

Thank you for your question.
Please follow the link below in order to open a support ticket to our system and please mention your account/e-mail,so we can help you further and check your issue:
https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Please make sure to choose "Technical assistance starting the product" during the submitting of the Request Type.

Also please have in mind that you will need the same amount of V-Ray Render Node licenses available as the machines used to work with V-Ray Dsitributed Rendering.
For example if you have 2 x machines used to render in DR at the same time, you will need to have 2 x V-Ray Render Node licenses.
The other option is to exclude the localhost from rendering and only include the render slave in Distributed Rendering process.
On both machines, Chaos license server should be installed and activated.
Thank you.

[jim_dalgleish]

Great, thank you!