DR with precalculated LC and IM

[jstrob]

I am trying to use distributed rendering with a precalculated Light cache and a Irradiance map. Both maps have unc path

But all network nodes are rendering completely black.

very simple scene: some geo of a mountain and two simple character (no rigging no bitmap at all).

Is it possibls to render precalculated LC and IM with DR?

[thablanch]

Yes it is possible to render with precalc. map.

Could it be that your slaves computers are not seeing the license. Are you rendering ok if rendering in regular mode instead of precalc. maps...

[jstrob]

I unchecked memory buffer and sent the job on the network only with preview and it rendered. Then I rechecked memory buffer and sent the job again and it worked. Only one computer took like 3 hours just to load the irrandiance map for the first frame (while the other frames took only 3 minutes to render.)