Couple of problems

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Hello,
We are facing two problems while rendering 5000x5000 images, first is that on one scene there was this warning "camera fov is too small possible round-off errors" , though rendering was through VRayCamera and definitely FOV was fine, about 66. Scene was rendering completely empty with this error. What i've done is i just cloned camera - it renders fine now... Pretty strange thing ?
The second is that we are using network drives setup, like "\\server\projects" is "z:\projects" - i know this is not the best way to work , though this is workflow which was setup already. So the thing is that slaves are losing network drives connections randomly - missing assets , xrefs and etc. I've been reading on Windows forums (we are using Windows server 2012 as server and windows 7s as workstations and render nodes) that there is a trick to "give" more memory to windows network driver, is that an issue ?
Our typical workstation config is i7 , 64gb ram , scenes are "eating" about 32 gb ram , so there should be plenty of free RAM , 3dsmax 2014 and VRay 3.20.02, setup involves Backburner and VRay Spawners.
Thanks !

[joconnell]

We get the same network dropping issue here cos some dope decided to start a project using mapped letters. It's not a memory thing as such, it's just that the connection almost goes to sleep every now and then if not used. I use deadline as a render manager here which has the ability to run remote commands on our slaves, so I just get it to run "explorer p:" every now and then which gets each slave to open our projects drive and refresh the connection. You can probably find some other slution to run remote commands depending on what you're using for rendering.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Thanks , actually that is what i've found as well on windows forums, there was a trick to make connection stay for longer time. Also i can make a simple autoit script which will run this explorer command every 10 minutes , but that sounds silly to me , there should be better solution for that
up : this is what i've found : http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-...s-in-windows-7

[Svetlozar Draganov]

We are facing two problems while rendering 5000x5000 images, first is that on one scene there was this warning "camera fov is too small possible round-off errors" , though rendering was through VRayCamera and definitely FOV was fine, about 66. Scene was rendering completely empty with this error. What i've done is i just cloned camera - it renders fine now... Pretty strange thing ?

Would it be possible to send us the scene with the problematic camera for investigation?
Thank you very much in advance.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Sorry Svetlozar , that was fast ongoing project and when i corrected camera i believe scene was overwritten and now it's rendering fine... If we will meet this thing once again - i will send it definitely.

[Svetlozar Draganov]

No problem, just let us know if it happens again.