DR: Asset was not received

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

Trying to setup DR (with Next Beta 2, nightly) and everything seems to work fine except for for the environment EXR that is saved in a temp folder on C: HDD.
I always get the error that the asset was not received, even though the drive and folder is shared just as the others...
I read in the docs that I can change the folder location with a variable, but dont know where to do this.
This i hapenning btw with the "use cached assets" turned on or off...
How can I solve this, please?
Edit: I should say that once in a while the render slaves machine sometimes asks for a password in explorer to access the main machine. Until now that didnt seem to affect vray, but maybe it is connected. User names and passwords are identical though, so I dont even know why that is happening

[ivan.slavchev]

You can use 2 variables:

- VRAY_ASSETS_PATH is not strictly DR-related. It tells VRay additional paths to look for assets that can't be loaded from their default paths (i.e. the path in the .vrscene). You can add multiple paths to this variable too and VRay will look for assets in all of them. This practically means that VRAY_ASSETS_PATH works when DR is not used.

- VRAY_ASSETS_CACHE_PATH - When set on a machine that is used as a render slave during distributed rendering, this variable specifies a path where V-Ray will store the transferred assets.

Also - if you're asked for a password - check if "Guest" account is enabled in Windows

"Transfer missing assets" option is needed when the assets are not accessible from their default location, by default the assets are transferred to "%TEMP%\vray_assets_cache" folder.

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

Hi
Thanks for the explanation .
I still don't know how to use the phrases though. Where do u I put them in
Strange thing is that all assets move over to the slave but one, that is the exr in the dome that actually is part of the time lapse hdri I'm using .somehow Vray wants the slave to load that from a temp folder and not the original.

[ivan.slavchev]

There are several ways to set the variables, a quick google search should provide more than enough info.
You can start sysdm.cpl from Windows' "Run" -> "Advanced" tab -> Environment variables

or set it using CMD:

setx VARIABLE_NAME "VARIABLE_VALUE" /M

The VARIABLE_VALUE should be the shared folder with the files - e.g. \\my_pc\share

Make sure the share permissions are correct and the GUEST account is enabled.

Also - do you get the same behavior with V-Ray 3 or only with V-Ray Beta?

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

It seems like the IFL file might be the problem. All the assets transfer nicely to the other machine, but when transfering the ifl file, the message about the exr foöe not being received comes up...