pale/dark DR buckets

[tricky]

I'm performing a DR and buckets from my local machine are paler than the rest. It seems only to be visible on certain objects, for example, in the attached, on the gold metal picture frames. To be honest, I'm not sure if my local machine is rendering correctly and the slaves are wrong, or vice versa.

What's going on here?

Max 2014 Vray 2.40.04

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Well as usual every time this issue come up the usual answer is- "One of slaves does not have access to textures".

[tricky]

Well as usual every time this issue come up the usual answer is- "One of slaves does not have access to textures".

Yes, that is normally what happens, but this is my local machine acting weirdly.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Then only local machine has access to something that none of the other slaves do...

[tricky]

Asset tracking shows no problems. Everything UNC'd and found as normal.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Try rendering only with master. Not sure. Can u show us passes? Which pass is different, Reflection?

[tricky]

Will keep trying and post my results

[tricky]

It seems to be something with the reflection channel. See here:-



The problem buckets are my local machine (unless all the other machines are wrong and my local machine is right)

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Do you have the same version of vray on all computers? Nightlies?

[tricky]

Same version. No nightlies - just the latest stable release.

I am using a vray sun and a vray sky, but I am not sure if the sun is connected to the sky in anyway - I'm just manually positioning the sun where I want it. Can this cause an issue?

[TragnarionStudios]

Differents options for resolve problems with the Farms:

- Routes, try to put all your routes UNC or relative to the project.

- Restart the VraySpawner services in all the Farms o Slaves computers.

This link is really interesting.

http://vray.info/tutorials/vray_dist...rner/part3.asp

[Morne]

This link is really interesting.

http://vray.info/tutorials/vray_dist...rner/part3.asp

Thanks for the plug

Sometimes it helps to simply restart your local pc and also the slaves. Then in your camera view, switch to a different camera and back to the original. Now render and see what happens?

We had a VERY weird situation the other day where some boulders from a collection didnt render with textures on the slaves, even though the textures were in the same location and also pathed the same as all the other textures that the scene use. Ended up moving just that one texture to a different folder and repathing and only then it worked. Very weird. This was with max 2014 and vray 2.4

I'm hoping the auto asset collection in Vray 3.0 will sort all these weird issues

[svetlozar.draganov]

Have you also tried Check For Missing Maps option ?

[vlado]

I'm hoping the auto asset collection in Vray 3.0 will sort all these weird issues

It would be good to try that now that the beta is out and let us know if there are any issues.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Mokiki]

I had a similar problem recently and it turned out that there were different service packs installed on my workstation and the render nodes. That gave me bucket differences too. Could this be the case?.