vrayspawner with RPC

[cristoforo]

Are there any known problems of the vrayspawner with the RPC plugin? Previous to today I had the spawner working fine on (4) other computers. Today I downloaded and installed an update to the the RPC plugin.....now I receive a message that the the host machines fail when network rendering...even if there are no RPC objects. In the previous days while the spawner was working, I had no RPC objects in the scene. I do not understand the problem here. On my computer vray renders fine even with the RPC objects. Anyone else have a similar problem?

[Candelero]

Have You installed the new RPC update plugin on all the machines involved in the DR... in order to work fine, all additional plugins have to be installed on each machine... ?


Best Regards,
nikki Candelero

[cristoforo]

Yes...installed on all the machines and rebooted. I cannot figure out what the problem is.

[Candelero]

Try switching back to older version of RPC... if then everything works FINE, you have your answer...

Best Regards,
nikki Candelero

[cristoforo]

It is not the new update....it is a conflict between RPC's and the vrayspawner. If I use backburner, everything is fine. Using the vrayspawner, in the buckets rendered by the slaves, the RPC's are invisible. The spawner does not seem to find the map path. I think it is a conflict between the spawner and the program that RPC uses to map the paths. Anyone using RPC's find a solution to this?

[Candelero]

#1 Do You have correct PATHS on each Render-Node so that the spawner knows where the maps are...?

#2 Have You tried copying the maps localy on each machine...?

Best Regards,
nikki Candelero

[cristoforo]

All the paths are correct. If I render through backburner, I have no problem....this fine for the animations, but I also need vrayspawner. I want to test rendering directly from one of the other machines. How do I go about that with the license? I opened the license manager on another screen and it asked the code again. Do I put the same code that I already received?

[Candelero]

You can try running the V-Ray via the Net...
In the Authorization menu, type the IP address where the VRLServer is...
so, You will swap...

Try this and let me know if the problem still appears.

Best Regards,
nikki Candelero

[cristoforo]

OK. I tried rendering the same file on one of my render slaves....it renders fine. The conflict is definitely between the spawner and ACM....the path configurator of RPC plug in. I tried distributed rendering on the slave, and got the same result.....the buckets of the slaves show no RPC's.

[Clifton Santiago]

This happened to me a couple months ago. Like you figured, the ACM is causing the problem when using DR. Fortunately for me one of the IT guys fixed it and it works fine now. I will ask him how he did it.

Otherwise, figure out how to disable the ACM, and use the RPC plugin with paths pointing directly to their network folder. I somehow installed the latest RPC at home without ACM, and I've never had this problem.

[cristoforo]

Clifton, please let me know how it was fixed. I'm going crazy tying to figure it out..........and the DR is a very important tool! Thanks!

[Clifton Santiago]

Okay, this is what he did:

He installed the ACM on the network server, along with the RPC content, in a shared folder. He then re-installed the RPC plugin on the manager and slave machines, pointing them to the ACM and shared RPCs.

After that, all machines could see all RPC content. It sounds simpler than I thought. I hope it works for you.

Cheers

[cristoforo]

That is exactly how my set up is. So, to be clear on this, you are able to use the vrayspawner over the network with RPC's in your scene. Using backburner I have no problems.....it is only with the spawner. Which ever computer I chose to use as the client, is able to see the RPC's when using the spawner....but all the nodes do not see the RPC's. This is the same problem you had, correct? I am really getting frustrated here!!

[Clifton Santiago]

Okay, I'm not sure then. All I know is that ACM needs to be installed on the network, and not locally on any of the render machines. It then works as a little server, telling the nodes where the RPC content is. Also, all RPC content needs to be in a shared network folder, with ACM pointing to it.

If that doesn't solve the problem, I'm sorry. Maybe contact Archvision?

[cristoforo]

Clifton, are you using the vrayspawner as a service or running it as an application? At home I have the same problem with RPC's not rendering if the vrayspawner is set as a service. As an application, though, they render fine. I just tried here at work, but even as an application they are not rendering. I am in touch now with Archvision to see if they can do something. I noticed that the render host gives me a message to send to vray when the rpc's do not render. I'll send it and see what happens.