Blender, Vray and Deadline

[Francois_]

Hi,

I'm from an animation studio that use Vray and Deadline. The new Blender version seems quite promising, so we are interested in giving it a try, at least for modeling and scene building.

I have been able to use Blender with Deadline, or to render inside Blender with Vray, but I can't find any information about using Blender, Vray and Deadline all together (as it possible to with 3dsMax, Vray and Deadline for exemple). Is this possible without exporting data as vrscene?

[boyan]

Hey, Francois,

Thank you for the post. Sorry for the delay. I am not the expert of Deadline but it seems everything is fine during the tests. Setup is the same as Cycle. I've been used the release build from 2019 09 23.

Check the video links below:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JYN...ew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/111w...ew?usp=sharing

Cheers,

Please, let me know if you have more questions. I hope I can handle it.

[Francois_]

Hi boyan,

tank you for you answer. I appreciate you took time to shoot the videos!

I have finally managed to solve my issue. It was due to the fact that the Blender Vray add-on was not loaded on the machines I use as render nodes. So in order to solve this issue, one simply has to start Blender on those machines, activate the Vray add-on and save the user preferences.

In my case though, this was not possible as the machine I use as render nodes are computing servers that contains no 3D hardware acceleration enabled GPU. As a result, Blender with UI would not launch. To resolve this, I simply copied the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79 at the same location on the render nodes. I assume only the preference file would be necessary (C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.79\config\userpref.blend), but I haven't tried to copy it alone.