DR failing, plugin issue? help?

[super gnu]

im trying to use DR on a scene ive just received. it gives errors about multiscatter missing when it loads, but it doesnt matter for my purposes. however DR isnt working with this scene. i can see the spawner loads the scene partially, then max bombs out (on the slave) it then tries again.. and again.

is it likely to be a missing plugin error causing this, or is it likely something else?

simpler scenes work fine with DR.

[svetlozar.draganov]

DR shouldn't fail because of a missing plugin, it might generate incorrect result because of that but it should work after all.
Which V-Ray/3DSMax version is that?

Does it work fine if multiscatter objects are removed from the scene?

[super gnu]

I tracked the issue down to a single xref. Strangely one containing a handful of editable meshes with a single multisub of normal vraymaterials. Nothing odd about it.

I collapsed the meshes into one and merged it into a new file, and tge problem went away. Was very odd because it was fine on the host machine, and the two machines are practically identical.

[tashko.zashev]

Probably this X-ref scene contains some materials or data created by additional plugin even if they are not used/applied to the scene geo.
We will need the files in order to find what exactly is happening.

[super gnu]

i can probably send over the problem xref.. ill test if it causes the problem as a stand-alone file too. i cant really send over the whole project.. especially since ive resolved the issue to my satisfaction here. however if the scene might be useful to you ill fire it over.

[tashko.zashev]

i can probably send over the problem xref.. ill test if it causes the problem as a stand-alone file too.

That would be great.