White buckets on DBR

[DPS]

Any ideas why I'd get white buckets on my slaves?

My scene is quite big and am rendering at 4k. Slaves seem to be within the available RAM i.e. ~11GB out of 16GB. I have 32GB on my workstation.

Here's part of the vray log before it rendered white:


[2013/Oct/22|15:36:40] Image prepass completed.
[2013/Oct/22|15:36:40] Rendering image.
[2013/Oct/22|15:36:40] Setting up 8 thread(s)
[2013/Oct/22|15:36:40] Sending 4200004 bytes of irradiance map to render02-pc
[2013/Oct/22|15:36:41] Sending 4200004 bytes of irradiance map to render-pc
[2013/Oct/22|15:36:41] Sending 4200004 bytes of irradiance map to render02-pc
[2013/Oct/22|15:36:41] Cancelled.


I just started using a new router, but I rendered this yesterday.

I initially had the problem yesterday when one of my slaves was not given correct read/write permissions on the Homegroup but I fixed that and it's since been working. I've also been network rendering via backburner all day.

The joys of DBRing.

[DPS]

Third time lucky. Guess this will remain a mystery until next time.

[vlado]

Is that a nightly build by the way?

Best regards,
Vlado

[DPS]

It is, 2.45.01

[DPS]

Was the nightly likely to have been the cause?

[3LP]

Or, it could be the Spawning Cam Issue, maybe?

do you have any geometry that is in 0.0.0 ?

when you have the spawning cam issue, Vray places the current cam at 0.0.0 facing down, so you would render black or white buckets depending if you have geometry there or not...

I guess all your buckets are right when you're not spawning?

Stan

[DPS]

Hi

I already had the black bucket issue. Interesting to know what is happening during this. New camera did the trick that time.

Would you still get the GI preview during this problem? I recal the black bucket was completely black for GI but it was a while ago now.

This scene rendered in all slaves after restarting max.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

I lost the thread - does the issue still persist or you have sorted it out ?