Hi,
is it really necessary to freeze 3ds Max on startup for several minutes just because of checking for Vray licence? At home, I am using VPN to grab floating licence from work, but if i forget to enable VPN, i get very long freeze on 3ds Max startup while Vray is checking for licence.
I realize that it takes so long for the reasons related to network rendering, where on larger farms, tiny network traffic outage could have devastating consequences if it happened in the exact time Vray was checking for licence, but i still think freezing 3ds Max on startup is way too preemptive. Guess what... My maxstart.max file has mental ray set up as renderer, so 3ds Max does not even come in contact with anything Vray related as long as i stay away from any Vray scenes.
First solution could be to postpone checking for licence only when actual rendering with Vray is initiated.
Second solution would be to add option to Vray licence server utility to set time out for licence check, and if licence is not found within that time, then simply proceed without licence. Licence would then be checked again when actual Vray rendering starts, and if the licence wasn't found then either, rendering would simply be cancelled.
is it really necessary to freeze 3ds Max on startup for several minutes just because of checking for Vray licence? At home, I am using VPN to grab floating licence from work, but if i forget to enable VPN, i get very long freeze on 3ds Max startup while Vray is checking for licence.
I realize that it takes so long for the reasons related to network rendering, where on larger farms, tiny network traffic outage could have devastating consequences if it happened in the exact time Vray was checking for licence, but i still think freezing 3ds Max on startup is way too preemptive. Guess what... My maxstart.max file has mental ray set up as renderer, so 3ds Max does not even come in contact with anything Vray related as long as i stay away from any Vray scenes.
First solution could be to postpone checking for licence only when actual rendering with Vray is initiated.
Second solution would be to add option to Vray licence server utility to set time out for licence check, and if licence is not found within that time, then simply proceed without licence. Licence would then be checked again when actual Vray rendering starts, and if the licence wasn't found then either, rendering would simply be cancelled.
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