Backburner, V-Ray 1.5 and 3ds max 2008

[COMPANY39]

Hello,

I am testing our deployments of 2008 on our render farm and I am noticing a problem. Regular render jobs sent to our render farm are pulling V-Ray licenses. Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks,

Mark Kauffman
Technical Lead
PB
kauffman@pbworld.com

[vlado]

V-Ray will not require a license if rendering from a 3ds Max instance which has been started in slave mode (usually from backburner or the v-ray spawner). A license will only be taken if rendering is done from an interactive session of 3ds Max. However, the render slaves must still be able to connect to a working license server.

Nevertheless I'll make a few tests here to see if there are any issues with 3ds Max 2008 - I know it was fine for the 3ds Max beta, but one never knows...

Best regards,
Vlado

[COMPANY39]

Thanks, Vlado. The BB monitor is giving me the message that server cannot render because there are not more V-Ray licenses available. I will try some more testing on my side to determine a cause.

Thanks,

Mark Kauffman
Technical Lead
PB
kauffman@pbworld.com

[jacksc02]

Mark,
Are there any firewalls that might be blocking the render nodes from the license server?

[COMPANY39]

I believed I tracked this down to a bizarro install problem on 2008 based on a batch file. It would seem that V-Ray was not communicating with the license server.

Thanks