Usind DR on a job submitted via backburner

[kosso_olli]

Hi,
when I am rendering in 3dsMax, I often send my renderjobs to the backburner with DR activated. The job then starts on one of the slave machines and assigns the scene to the other DR slaves. Can I get similar behavior with Vray for Maya? I can get the job submitted to backburner, and it opens and renders on that particular slave I sent the job to. But the other DR nodes are not kicking in... What am I missing?

Regards

Oliver

[Svetlozar Draganov]

It is possible to use DR nodes when submitting BackBurner job in Vray for Maya as well.
The reason it didn't work in your environment is most likely because the machine where the BackBurner Server is started doesn't have information about DR-nodes.
In Vray for Maya we do not have an option to save DR-nodes in the scene-file so far, the DR-configuration settings are saved locally into the following directory:

C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya

The configuration files are:

server_list.tmp
server_ports.tmp
server_status.tmp

If you copy these files to each machine where BackBurner server is launched Vray will be able to locate its DR-nodes and the job will be distributed over the nodes.
The location where these files must be copied is: C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\maya

We've just run a quick test in our environment and we can confirm that with this setup we managed to run DR-rendering via BackBurner job.

If you have any questions or difficulties with the setup please let us know.

[kosso_olli]

Thanks Svetlozar, will try that!

[kosso_olli]

Svetlozar, works like a charm now, thanks again!