Vray 1.5 finale : Backburner and DR

[jodestroy]

as soon as the new SP1 is ready, let's rock....

we have almost the same problem here. Not fix since 1 month. We can't use the DR with Vray. The Dr do not see the maps.... snif snif....

one day i hope i'll find it before my 50th anniversary...

another 13 years to look in depth ....

[Dirk71]

one silly question: where will i find the service packs, in the support-section under
vray-builds?

btw what´s the difference between the sections pdplayer and
vray-builds? there´s the same content.

[mipmap]

At this moment there is nothing on the site that seems an sp1 to download... something gone wrong?

[raistlin]

it seam's to be in the 3rd dimension ... The service pack travel around our space and don't want to go home... Please Vlado if the file is on your server could we have a link to download this ? If it impossible to do on the chaosgroup website, email a alternativ solution... 2 days on your servers and 0 in our machines... something wrong ? Maybe the 3rd dimension )

[ene.xis]

i really don t get what s all the fuss about!
if u can t get past some bug with the current version email chaos, to have it sorted out...
the Sp1 will be out shortly i m sure untill then lets all just keep on focusing on all the new toys allready bundled and bug free features on the actual 1.50 release!

[vlado]

<shrug> Well, if it was on the server, but we did not announce it then apparently there were reasons for it We'll get there shortly.

Best regards,
Vlado

[raistlin]

lol i'm sure of that !
and i m also sure that the sp1 come here very soon ^^ Tomorrow maybe ?
....Dear santa clauss... ^^

[raistlin]

oh oh oh

I've install the service pack BUT my problem is always there... I launch the scene with my machine and the backburner to a server that i choose on the backburner list, and when the job is launch, the only buckets i can see are the server than i choose... But only them, without all the render farm buckets, Also my question is : It is possible to launch a job to a machine which is simply a "server machine" or we have to launch a render ONLY on the machine that we work to ??? If it is, it's not very interesting... how can we work on a machine which render a big scene?

I 've trying alot of tricks... i 've move the backburner manager on a different machine, reinstall it, relaunch all the servers and also restart all the renderfarm, but it doesn't work enough...

Please, 3 weeks after, is it possible to launch before my machine a job through the backburner and with the Distribute rendering on an other machine that we choose ? yes or no ?

Thanks a lot

[vlado]

You need to set up the DR servers list on the machine where you do the backburner rendering. It does not have to be your working machine.

You can just copy the file vray_dr.cfg from your working machine to the one that does the backburner rendering.

Best regards,
Vlado

[panthon]

You can just copy the file vray_dr.cfg from your working machine to the one that does the backburner rendering.

Best regards,
Vlado

Where is this file located?

[raistlin]

You need to set up the DR servers list on the machine where you do the backburner rendering. It does not have to be your working machine.

You can just copy the file vray_dr.cfg from your working machine to the one that does the backburner rendering.

Best regards,
Vlado

I have test some parameters and i have understand that we have to check the same distribute options... Simply we open a scene and check all the spawners on it, launch the render, save and close... Vray save also this DR options and now it works ! Fantastic !

Just one thing (yes i m boring ^^) But i found that the irradiance map's loading is slower than before...

Thanks Vlado

[vlado]

Where is this file located?

Depending on your 3ds Max setup, either in the \plugcfg folder in the root folder of 3ds Max, or the \plugcfg folder in your local user 3ds Max preferences (something like C:\Users\userName\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\9 - 32bit\enu\plugcfg).

Best regards,
Vlado

[raistlin]

wow... we have a problem ... If i understand everything here we'd better have to parameter the machine which launch the scene and the machine which receive it to be identical ? It's not very usefull if we need to split our rnders on two or more different nodes... Is there any chance to have an option to solve this problem? like an option we could check near the DR option "send to the job..." Because I'm trying to render a frame with a part of our render farm and a second infographist do some tests on his machine and a few render nodes, so i uncheck 2 or 3 nodes from the DR options to let him work efficiently... BUT the server which received my job wasn't update and try to render with the Dr spawner which was used by the 2nd infographist... And finally it render a frame like nothing... With red and green square etc... If we should re-parameter all the time this option it must be very unusefull...
(please don't tell me if i have a good texture path fils... i have ) )

It's impossible to use like you tell us but... if it's possible to have the good option it's really cool

Best regards !
Raistlin

[panthon]

Where is this file located?

Depending on your 3ds Max setup, either in the \plugcfg folder in the root folder of 3ds Max, or the \plugcfg folder in your local user 3ds Max preferences (something like C:\Users\userName\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\9 - 32bit\enu\plugcfg).

Best regards,
Vlado

Unfortunately, in some machines this file is present and in others is not. I've just installed the vray 1.5 sp1 in a recently reinstalled machine and after the installation ive been unable to locate the Vray_dr file. I have tried some DR first and even some BB tasks on this machine, but this file has failed to appear. Copying it from other machines has not been useful either.

[vlado]

Panthon, the vray_dr.cfg file is created after you do a DR rendering with a machine as a client machine and you have used the Distributed rendering settings dialog to add some DR servers.

It's exact location varies with your particular system, so you may have to search for it.

On the other hand, you must also put it in the correct location on the machine that you want to submit DR through backburner to. This location would depend on whether you have enabled 3ds Max user profiles, and if so, on the user under which the backburner server is running.

Raistlin, the list of DR servers is not submitted along with your scene; it is local to the machine which initiates the DR rendering. So, no, you will not be able to use this in the way that you want. We will consider it for future builds though.

Best regards,
Vlado