V-Ray Cloud Public Beta

[vladie]

Hello everyone,

V-Ray Cloud is now available in Public Beta. You can register for the service in this dedicated form. For the duration of the Beta program you will be eligible for virtually unlimited free cloud credits and storage, starting off with 1000 credits.

Happy rendering!
Vladimir Dragoev
The Chaos team

[aluxado]

Hello Vladie,

I've some problem with the last update of Vray Cloud for Mac Os. When i launch the "Render with Vray Cloud" from Modo, I get a terminal window with inside write "Permission denied
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

"

What could be the problem?
I don't have any firewall connection blocked to Chaos server, and I got it working with the same machine and setup about one month ago with the previous version..

I'm using Mac Os 10.12.6, Modo 12.1v1 and Vray for Modo 3.6 last build.

[vladie]

Hello axelts,

I'm sorry for the issues with the new client app. I believe you have sent us a support ticket. The support team will handle it and answer you there. Expect an answer from us soon.

Thanks,
Vladi

[aluxado]

Hello axelts,

I'm sorry for the issues with the new client app. I believe you have sent us a support ticket. The support team will handle it and answer you there. Expect an answer from us soon.

Thanks,
Vladi

Yes, thanks!

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[boyan]

Howdy, axelts,

Download the latest version 0.15 - 20180903 and install it. Before that check your network settings Wifi or LAN and make sure that you don't have or use a proxy otherwise the system will ban you. Overall the vcloud inside Modo is working well in MAC.

I think you should have similar to this one:

vncviewer_2018-09-04_16-21-53.png

Cheers,

[aluxado]

Howdy, axelts,

Download the latest version 0.15 - 20180903 and install it. Before that check your network settings Wifi or LAN and make sure that you don't have or use a proxy otherwise the system will ban you. Overall the vcloud inside Modo is working well in MAC.

I think you should have similar to this one:

vncviewer_2018-09-04_16-21-53.png

Cheers,

Thanks Boyan,

I did the update but I get no any change. I will write to the support with email and let's see if we can resolve it...

A.

[aluxado]

Thanks Boyan,

I did the update but I get no any change. I will write to the support with email and let's see if we can resolve it...

A.

Ok, I got to work. The problem was with the installer that wasn't uninstalling correctly the previous version. I did a manual uninstall and re-install and now it works!

A.

[Robert]

Modo works excellent with vrcloud.. I can say that after 3 month testing. Now, it would be good if the exporter could be improved. Like taking over the seqeuence list, or being able to render a costum frame range, etc.

[vladimir.nedev]

Like taking over the seqeuence list

Can you explain this, I don't understand.

being able to render a costum frame range

I will add this on the todo.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[Robert]

Hi Vladimir, one of things I had a fight with V-Ray and Cloud rendering was getting the assets together. Now that's partial your fault, as you already added an asset consolidation and yes Modo lacks of an asset manager or better project management. But, its kind of hard to keep up with all the local stored absolute path in the various V-ray settings, especially as the treated different in each OS. Pure workflow horror. So what Modo does here quite good is using relative paths, that are possible to search forward and backward in the folder hierarchy.
So for example, you got a bunch of trees you want to use. You set up a scene with the shaders, as shader - damn that workflow - can't be saved with proxies. So you can of course first load a 1 GB file of the original mesh and then export the proxies again, but that sucks. So what you want is import a ready setup scene with the proxy locators and have it in your project. Simple like presets work. But then the path screws up. And here it starts getting tricky. The best way would be copy the proxies to your project and rewrite each single path in the properties panel.. yeah and if you have 50 proxies you going to hate that. You can also try some automatic way, but then you get that damn C:/ in and its going to work only on that computer and on Windows.
Now, if possible through the SDK or what ever. I help you kicking Modo devs here. Could you please improve that? Maybe not the most important stuff, but then I don't know how much work its for you anyway.

[vladimir.nedev]

As far as I know, V-Ray Cloud will consolidate all the assets for you, you don't need to have them in a sub-directory of your .lxo scene.

Relative asset paths in V-Ray for Modo probably won't happen any time soon, as I have many other tasks.

Have you tried using the V-Ray Assets - Re-link command ?
It will check all external V-Ray files and if it can't find some of them, it will ask you for the new location.
After the first browse dialog, it will store information how the asset has moved, so if you have moved whole sub-directories, it will find the rest of the files without further browse dialogs.
Edit: it is similar to what happens when you load a .lxo file and Modo can't find some of the assets. But I can't do it on scene load, so you have to start the command manually from the V-Ray menu.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[vladimir.nedev]

Relative asset paths in V-Ray for Modo probably won't happen any time soon, as I have many other tasks.

Actually, my mistake, we do support paths relative to the .lxo location. I forgot that I implemented this.

When you export a .vrscene, the path will become absolute in the .vrscene itself.

Greeteings,
Vladimir Nedev

[Robert]

Well it doesn't warn you actually if you have missing links on opening a scene. If you upload to vray cloud it warns you quite late.
Yes I use the locate assets. But I would prefer instead of consolidating them, rather relocating them and not as absolute paths.
But that all seems impossible without you having time for it..

[vladimir.nedev]

But I would prefer instead of consolidating them, rather relocating them and not as absolute paths.

Can you explain what's your workflow exactly ?
You have the .lxo file and sub-directories with various types of assets, and you want to move them together from machine to machine as one whole folder ?
Or is it something else ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[Robert]

Well, its like that. I have a bunch of complex tree models in a library scene. So in order to prepare that better and keep me from importing a 1 GB file I already exported all the models as proxies. Now the library lies under C:/dropbox/mystuff/3dstuff/trees/proxies (example). I can keep that path, but when ever I import the file on non-windows OS it won't find the proxies. So, I edited the path to proxy/file.. (example). That way the proxies work on all OS and even if I copy the lxo file along the subfolder with the proxies.
That brings me to another problem. I can't really import that scene as then V-Ray wouldn't know where the path to the proxies is pointing too. Here is a big difference to Modo files, that no matter if you had an absolute or relative path, will relink all assets. I don't know how this works exactly, but I never really had a problem with it, well expect V-Ray. Note that this not only affects proxies but also path for precalculated GI etc.
It is just harder with proxies I often end up having a lot of them.