DR spawner does not work with 3ds Max 2009 and 3ds Max 2010 hotfixes

[dlparisi]

FYI: I just installed the hotfix along with the new spawner on all of my render nodes. DR was working fine but the installation of either the hotfix of the new spawner (probably the former) seems to have broke my groundwiz render node plugin as anything that used groundwiz, even just the variation texture, would not render in DR (that node would fail). A reinstall of groundwiz render node on each render slave seems to have fixed it.

[stevesideas]

I dont know for sure but I think this problem also occurs with Max 2011. Im not sure if its because of the recent SP1 update ? Vlado, can you provide an updated XML for max 2011 please.

[stevesideas]

Would it confuse vray if I had 2 spawners open..one for max 2010 and one for max 2011 ? Im not to fond of max 2011 at the moment and so mostly keep to max 2010 for my projects.

Update: If I stop the vray max 2010 spawner the max 2011 spawner seems fine. Can I not have both running at the same time ?

[vlado]

You can't have both running at the same time unfortunately. It will work if you just keep the latest one open (i.e. 2011).

Best regards,
Vlado

[stevesideas]

Ok, I didnt realise that..thats probably why ive been having so many problems lately. Thanks

[stevesideas]

So if I want to switch between max 2010 and max 2011 I would have to start the appropriate spawner on each render server ? What a pain !

[vlado]

No, you don't have to do that; the 2011 spawner will also render fine files for 3ds Max 2010.

Best regards,
Vlado

[VI_MOVE]

Installed the new hotfix on my workstation too. DR seems completely fine but when I send a BB job my workstation won't join but throwing error messages instead. Seems to be a quite useless update from autodesk...

[ajroane]

Can you please help me with one thing? We just got 9 new workstations (Win7 64bit + Max 2011 + Vray 1.5 sp5) that I am using as render nodes, we also have 2 older render nodes (WinXP 64bit + Max 2011 + Vray 1.5 sp5). My local workstation is one of the new computers. I've been trying to get the DR working and I am unable to get the Spawner to launch on the Win7 computers, but it works perfectly on the older nodes. I went into the firewall settings and allowed vrayspawner2011.exe from the 3dsMax root folder on all the computers, but still no progress. I have read that there is an updated xml file for the 2009/2010 spawners. Is there an update for 2011 as well? I would really appreciate your help.

- Also, all of the machines work perfectly when rendering individual images through Backburner, it's just the DR that is not working at all on the new computers.

Thanks,

Andrew

[DJ-Studd]

You wouldn't believe how long I've spent trying to fix this issue.
I'm glad I saw this thread, thanks!

[ajroane]

@DJ-Studd,

Are you using Max 2011? If so, how exactly did you fix the issue?

Thanks,

Andrew

[Sascha Selent]

please replace the vraydummy2009.xml and vraydummy2010.xml respectively in the root folder of 3ds Max with the attached versions.

Yeah, fixed for me! Thanks Vlado.

[Sascha Selent]

So if I want to switch between max 2010 and max 2011 I would have to start the appropriate spawner on each render server ? What a pain !

No, you don't have to do that; the 2011 spawner will also render fine files for 3ds Max 2010.

Okay, but what if Max 2010 uses plugins that are not present in 2011? Does the 2011er spawner open up max 2010 in that case?

Steve, if you want to manage your spawners quite easy register them as a service (properly!!! - user account with the proper access-rights and starting-behavior set to manually) an start and stop these services remotely with "psservice" via *.bat-file (see attachment). Works very fine for me (WinXP Pro 32-bit).

Sascha

[Pionier]

@DJ-Studd,

Are you using Max 2011? If so, how exactly did you fix the issue?

Thanks,

Andrew

anyone can answer this question?...

I have this problem as well and is a big pain ! ;/
I didn't install any hotfixes, dr just stop working few days ago with no reason

over and over i have this msg:

scene transferred to XXX
server xxx scene loaded; starting render
render xxx render completed
render host xxx is not responding

[bob-cat]

I have just upgraded to Max 2011 64bit (from 2009 64bit) and also having alot of issues with this and also read alot of threads here.

Have finally sorted it out.

My issue was: DR not working through Backburner , ie. worked fine with max open and connected to all the DR nodes but as soon as I sent it through backburner - it didn't connect to any other nodes.

PROBLEM:

I still had Max 2009 64 bit installed on the main DR machine - I noticed that when I started Backburner it loaded both Max 2009 and 2011 plugins which is what was causing problems.

FIX:

Renamed "max_server32.task" in the "3ds Max 2009\network" folder to something else - (to stop Backburner loading the 2009 plugin) - so now backburner just loads max 2011.

All working now!
At some stage I will uninstall 2009, but for the time being this worked.

Hope this helps someone.