Proxys not displaying when re-opening a scene

[leotchest]

Still suffering from this vexing problem here................ & often its time consuming trying to select all the vray proxies to either individually sort out their display or to run that script.

[tashko.zashev]

Still suffering from this vexing problem here................ & often its time consuming trying to select all the vray proxies to either individually sort out their display or to run that script.

Unfortunately this is the only workaround we have until the fix came out.

[Vizioen]

Still suffering from this vexing problem here................ & often its time consuming trying to select all the vray proxies to either individually sort out their display or to run that script.

You could use Zorb to change them all at once?

Or any of the scripts on script spot like this one (not sure this one works): http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/sc...ay-proxy-tools

[zacktown]

Is there any update for this issue? I cannot submit my current project to the renderfarm and rendering locally is not an option. All proxies render as boxes when I first open the scene, or when I submit to the farm.

Any updates or ideas are greatly appreciated.

[Zdravko.Keremidchiev]

Is there any update for this issue?

We are still working on it.

All proxies render as boxes when I first open the scene

I am not sure if this is the same issue. The one that we are working on is only for the viewport preview. The problem that you have is with the rendering of the proxies, right?
Have you tried to use the script mentioned earlier, does it help when rendering on a local machine? Also do you get any errors in the log files after rendering your scenes?

[zacktown]

Thank you for the reply. No, it really isn't an error per se. I would call it a "refresh on startup issue". When I open the scene, I get a bounding box representing my proxy, even though the path is correct. To fix this, I select the box and, in the modifier rollout, refresh the path. Then, it will preview and render properly. That is why it won't work on the renderfarm. The farm opens the scene and renders the box since the path is not "refreshed" on file open.

Just to be clear, locally, I have no problem. The renderfarm is the main issue. I simply can't render locally and make the deadline. I must use the renderfarm (in 2 weeks). Is there a way to "embed" the script in the scene, like in maya? Force a refresh on file/open?

[Zdravko.Keremidchiev]

As I wrote in your other post it will be best to send us a scene so we could investigate further. You can send it to support@chaosgroup.com . Please make sure to mention this thread.

[ozztheforester]

Hi
We have been having a similar issue but the problem got much more serious just at the moment we started submitting the job to our renderfarm, as usual we have an extremely tight deadline and cant render our proxy heavy scenes!
Please do let us know if any solution is out there....

Thanks!

[zacktown]

As it turned out, my issue was intermittent and I haven't had it in the past 3 weeks, so my investigation into it ceased. One suggestion that I haven't had a chance to try was to import the problem scene into an empty max scene. Might work? I hope so.

[ozztheforester]

We found a temporary solution for it still not tested fully but here it goes,

load up the problematic file, then run the below line at script listener

callbacks.addScript #filePostOpen "for i in $VRayProxy* do i.display = 3" id:#ozPD persistent:true

this will add a callback function to that particular file and each time file gets loaded it will run the display script, hopefully same would also work on render farm

I do hope this problem gets sorted out properly soon, looks like most of our files are getting affected by it.

[vlado]

Yes, will try to fix it as soon as possible.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Hello guys,

Since for some reason we are not able to find the scene with the proxies that renders as boxes would it be possible to send the scene again to support@chaosgroup.com?
A ticket number from the communication would be also very helpful.

Thank you very much in advance.

[thomes]

hello svetlozar,

most of the problems we have, hang for very long time without a solution. some since i think version 3 came out, thats nearly one year... i know you fight on many frontiers, but it would also be good to fix problems.

thomes

[Svetlozar Draganov]

We are working very hard trying to resolve all the issues but sometime more time is needed for particular issue or there are more important issues to fix.
Would you please remind us what are the issue that you are waiting to be resolved, we might consider to raise their priority and fix them in a short time.

[thomes]

...checkout if you have only the name of the proxy, without the .vrmesh ending.
i have an old file with this problem at the moment and i had a second look, and that was the problem here.
if i called the path, vray found the right one itself and remapped it with the ending...and the proxy was shown.

hope this helps someone