Proxies are disappearing from XREF scenes on certain render nodes.

[JD3D_CGI]

So rendering a scene that renders fine on the individual machine in question.

However, when that machine is acting as a backburner server, it drops proxy trees from the scene. The trees are in an xref file.

Why is this happening?

[NicoC]

Hello,

Do you use UNC paths ? you can check that in the Asset Tracking (Shit+T).
Also, you can force UNC paths conversion in 3ds Preferences, Files tab -> File handling / Convert file paths to UNC checkbox. That will certainly require to close & restart 3dsmax to take effect.

[vlado]

Are there any error messages or warnings in the V-Ray log file?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

Obvious things to check:

vray and max are the same version.

is it unc or mapped drive its being pulled from.

is the machine running same windows version as others.

[JD3D_CGI]

It was kind of hard to check, as the render nodes were remote (I was setting the job off from Berlin to my office in Bristol) - all the machines were set up the same.

Don't think I was using UNC paths, but I work of mapped drives... the solution was to merge the xref into the scene... since it was basically all proxies wasn't a problem.

Sadly I don't have time to troubleshoot, so I was hoping it was a known issue.