Slave returning different values in render

[cognizant]

I finally got my farm started. The problem is, now it is giving me very strange results. The slave gives different lightng values, as well as sometimes not even rendering with a texture. I thought this may have something to do with the slave not seeing the map, but some of the blocks were rendering with the texture while others were not. I noticed in the render progress window that it said 'sub-pixel' may be throwing it off, so I even unchecked that to the same results. Any ideas?

[cognizant]

Re: Slave returning different values in render

I figured out that this was caused by directing the slave to a specific folder for the maps. By distributing the maps to each node, it solved the problem.

[kubbek]

I have the same problem. Unfortuantelly changing any of Distributed Rendering options doesn't help. I can use vray only without distributed rendering.

[dkendig]

We are currently working on addressing some additional DR related issues that cause mismatched buckets. We hope to have all of them resolved in the next public beta build.

[kubbek]

Thanks, that would be great!

[james0133]

I had this problem too. It you make sure all of your maps and textures are also on the slave machine in the same directory it should fix it.

Or create a local folder called C:\vray and put all of your materials in it. Then create a local mapped drive letter Z:\ that points to C:\Vray then on all of your nodes create a Z:\ that points to the servers c:\vray as well and that will generally solve all black block issues. This way the local 3dm is looking for materials in Z:\ and so are all of the nodes.

I have a problem with slightly patchy depth of field when distributed rendering is on. Has anyone else found this? Any news on a fix?

Maybe that is what you ment by this:

We are currently working on addressing some additional DR related issues that cause mismatched buckets. We hope to have all of them resolved in the next public beta build.

[james0133]

This is an example.