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My IT guy and myself have been trying to solve this on our own for about a week with no luck. Here's the deal...
I created a small test scene - the teapot, a couple spheres, boxes, plane and a few vray lights with two or three maps. This is what I use to render quickly to make sure all the render hosts/servers are showing up for the Distributed Rendering party.
I have two workstations and one dedicated render box. All three are capable of contributing to the DR rendering (has worked great for several weeks). It seems quite frequently (daily) I have to reboot all three computers before they will all contribute to the job.
VRaySpawner 2011 is running as a service on all three computers.
Recently we installed the RPC plugin on each of the computers. All three computers are capable of rendering an RPC scene on their own (with no ArchVision watermarks). The content paths are all set to UNC naming. The content is located on the dedicated render box's hard drive, and the folder is shared with everyone in our office having full access to the folder.
When I open one of my test scenes (a plane, a couple RPC cars and a few RPC trees), my primary workstation and the render box show up for DR, but our secondary workstation does not. If I reboot all three computers, open the test scene that does NOT contain RPC content and then render again, they all three will show up. As soon as I open an RPC scene, one workstation (always the same one) will not show up. Even after I close that test scene with the RPC and open the other test scene without RPC, it still will not show up until I reboot everything.
I am currently logged in with my username to all the computers, so the credentials should be the same on all three systems.
We are running Windows 7 x64, Max Design 2011 x64 on all three boxes, and all three have Vray 2.0 installed (the same version).
I do NOT have admin rights.
Can someone please help us diagnose why we have to reboot so frequently, and why one of our workstations seems to break as soon as we open a scene with RPC content?
V-Ray says the following:
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Preparing renderer...
Connected to render host 10.0.1.114
Connected to render host 10.0.1.123
Connected to render host 10.0.1.214
Using 3 hosts for distributed rendering.
Scene transferred to ws123 - it never transfers to ws214
Sending irradiance map to ws123
warning: 0 error(s), 4 warning(s) (referring to subpixel color mapping being enabled, scene bounding box too large, and a ping error when it pinged my own computer.
__________________
I would greatly appreciate some guidance to make sure everything is setup correctly on our computers. We've wasted probably 8-10 hours trying to figure this out on our own...
I created a small test scene - the teapot, a couple spheres, boxes, plane and a few vray lights with two or three maps. This is what I use to render quickly to make sure all the render hosts/servers are showing up for the Distributed Rendering party.
I have two workstations and one dedicated render box. All three are capable of contributing to the DR rendering (has worked great for several weeks). It seems quite frequently (daily) I have to reboot all three computers before they will all contribute to the job.
VRaySpawner 2011 is running as a service on all three computers.
Recently we installed the RPC plugin on each of the computers. All three computers are capable of rendering an RPC scene on their own (with no ArchVision watermarks). The content paths are all set to UNC naming. The content is located on the dedicated render box's hard drive, and the folder is shared with everyone in our office having full access to the folder.
When I open one of my test scenes (a plane, a couple RPC cars and a few RPC trees), my primary workstation and the render box show up for DR, but our secondary workstation does not. If I reboot all three computers, open the test scene that does NOT contain RPC content and then render again, they all three will show up. As soon as I open an RPC scene, one workstation (always the same one) will not show up. Even after I close that test scene with the RPC and open the other test scene without RPC, it still will not show up until I reboot everything.
I am currently logged in with my username to all the computers, so the credentials should be the same on all three systems.
We are running Windows 7 x64, Max Design 2011 x64 on all three boxes, and all three have Vray 2.0 installed (the same version).
I do NOT have admin rights.
Can someone please help us diagnose why we have to reboot so frequently, and why one of our workstations seems to break as soon as we open a scene with RPC content?
V-Ray says the following:
__________________
Preparing renderer...
Connected to render host 10.0.1.114
Connected to render host 10.0.1.123
Connected to render host 10.0.1.214
Using 3 hosts for distributed rendering.
Scene transferred to ws123 - it never transfers to ws214
Sending irradiance map to ws123
warning: 0 error(s), 4 warning(s) (referring to subpixel color mapping being enabled, scene bounding box too large, and a ping error when it pinged my own computer.
__________________
I would greatly appreciate some guidance to make sure everything is setup correctly on our computers. We've wasted probably 8-10 hours trying to figure this out on our own...
