3DConnexion Space Explorer and VRay Spawner - FAIL

[NicoC]

Hello there,

After trying to get some help from 3DConnexion guys (without any luck or apparent good-will from them), I'm trying here ... I've bought a few months ago a 3d controller Space Explorer to use with 3dsmax 2012. Its use is very pleasant, BUT it somehow breaks VRay distributed rendering !! after a few minutes searching on forums, I found an old thread talking about the problem and the solution is simply ... to remove the controller plugins for 3dsmax and not to use the controller 3DConnexion guys say it's due to VRay of course, and that they can't do anything ... I'm a bit lost now

Any help would be greatly appreciated !

Thanks in advance,

Best regards.

[vlado]

Hm, the spawner is running on the slave machines, not on the machine where you have the 3DConnection stuff, is this correct?

Best regards,
Vlado

[NicoC]

Hello Vlado,

Yes, that's right - 3DConnexion controller only on my workstation, which is the distributed rendering "master".

[vlado]

So it's not really a spawner issue, but a DR issue?

In any case, we are looking into it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[NicoC]

Certainly ... I'm very disappointed, because of this problem, I simply can't use this 3d controller, using distributed rendering very very regularly if you can come quickly with a solution, that'd be wonderful !

Many thanks in advance !

[vlado]

Btw, check out this thread: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...252#post408252

It gives some advice for things to try to get this working.

Best regards,
Vlado

[NicoC]

Thanks Vlado, it actually details something I've already made: removing 3DxStudio.ms and 3dxstd.dlu files from my workstation. Then distributed rendering works again, but I can't use my nice 3d mouse :P

[ChaosGroup]

Hello,

we tried to reproduce the problem with 3Dconnexion device SpacePilot but the slave was running successfully DR jobs.
Please drop us an email at support@chaosgroup.com with vraylog attached from the machine with this device (located in the Windows temp folder).
We need more information where exactly the DR brakes.
Please feel free to add any relevant screen shots or information that might tell us on what stage the process is not working.
Thanks.

Support Team

[NicoC]

Hello,

Thank you for taking the time to test. I'm on a deadline, I'll provide you everything you need when images are delivered

Best regards.