DR Rendering crashes MODO 10.1

[pixelwerk]

When trying to render a scene with DR, even if it's just a sphere, modo crashes. Event log is empty, no error messages on the clients. I disabled online-licensing and it rendered the sphere once. I thought i solved the problem, but after trying it on another scene, modo crashed again.

btw. is there a way to access more than just 4 slaves?

Any suggestions?

[vladimir.nedev]

When trying to render a scene with DR, even if it's just a sphere, modo crashes. Event log is empty, no error messages on the clients. I disabled online-licensing and it rendered the sphere once. I thought i solved the problem, but after trying it on another scene, modo crashed again.

Are you sure it's the DR that's causing the crash ?
What if you disable DR, does it render then ?

The only problem I can think of is not enough space in your temp folder, as that's where a .vrscene needs to be saved before DR can start.
I don't handle this case gracefully, so a crash might occur, I am not sure.

Can you show me a screen-shot of your global V-Ray preferences ?

Are you rendering an animation or a single frame ?

btw. is there a way to access more than just 4 slaves?

Just separate the server names with ';' like this : "10.0.0.12;10.0.0.226"
There are 4 separate lists, so you can separate your nodes in 4 groups and enable/disable all nodes in a group together.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[pixelwerk]

It's only when trying to render with DR on. Without it works fine. I just found out, that after updating my slaves to Standalone "vraystd_adv_33004_x64_vc11_hwlic" even MAYA crashes when rendering with Distributed rendering on. Something that worked flawless before. As you can see from my screenshot, the slaves have access and they start rendering but somehow the master keeps crashing.

[vladimir.nedev]

To render with DR in V-Ray for MODO, you must use the V-Ray Standalone that comes with the V-Ray for MODO installation.
So basically install V-Ray for MODO on the slaves and run Launch V-Ray Render Slave from the V-Ray for MODO entry in the Start Menu.

The same applies to V-Ray for Maya, you must use the standalone from the V-Ray for Maya installation. The V-Ray for Maya installation allows you to install "Standalone only".

If you want to run the two on the same machine, so you can start DR from both V-Ray for Maya and MODO, you will have to start the slaves on different ports.
In this case, you start one of the two normally (V-Ray for Maya most likely, as it can be registered as a service, I haven't added this to V-Ray for MODO yet).
It will start on port 20207.

Then the other one is started by launching the V-Ray Command Prompt ( Tools -> V-Ray Standalone Command Prompt) and typing "vray.exe -server -portNumber=20208".
In the host application, you specify the slaves with a port number like this "10.0.0.226:20208"

I will see if I can reproduce the crash now that I know what you were doing. We need to fix it, but most likely it will then just give you an error that the V-Ray versions don't match.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[pixelwerk]

A sorry, understood the way it works wrong. In this case I have to install the Plugin for MAYA again...i just deinstalled it. Thought i make a clean start for my renderslaves, with just the standalone installed