bucket submission

[Da_elf]

Is it possible to treat buckets the same way that backburner treats frames. therefore if i bucket fails during a DR render rather than having to restart the render maybe that bucket and its information can be cleared and be allowed to be re-calculated. therefore either it might work the 2nd time or it might be taken up by another processor on the network (not sure if this makes sence but it would be a nice idea)

[CCS]

Good idear.

Only thing is, I wonder if vray knows that bucket didn't work. Black buckets seem to take just as long as good ones, and I don't see an error reported when buckets don't render.

If it could be done, I like your idea. (I'd rather not get black buckets at all though. )

[vlado]

Re: bucket submission

Is it possible to treat buckets the same way that backburner treats frames. therefore if i bucket fails during a DR render rather than having to restart the render maybe that bucket and its information can be cleared and be allowed to be re-calculated. therefore either it might work the 2nd time or it might be taken up by another processor on the network (not sure if this makes sence but it would be a nice idea)

V-Ray does that already - if a DR machine fails, its buckets are reassigned to other machines. However, if a bucket renders wrongly (f.e. because of missing maps), V-Ray cannot detect this case.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Da_elf]

if this was possible then vray would have the most kick ass bucket system ever

[Da_elf]

what about exerption errors usually due to ram problems.

[CCS]

Vlado-

But what about the infamous black buckets that seem to be working until they "complete" processing and show nothing? If those were just missing maps, it would seem that we would see a rendering with missing textures.


(Also, did you get my email? I've been trying to email you all day, but they keep bouncing.)

[vlado]

(Also, did you get my email? I've been trying to email you all day, but they keep bouncing.)

No, please re-send it. We had power outage for most of today so the email server was offline.

Best regards,
Vlado