DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

[CLHA]

I've recently updated our V-Ray for Sketchup and the DRSpawners aren't working. The spawners actually render themselves but when we have applied materials to faces the spawners don't render the materials, only the host computer does. Any solutions? The office is really dependant on the the DRSpawners and without them we just aren't as efficient. If there is no solution, we will have to go back to the previous version to when they were working but we would rather stick with the newest as there are features we really like.

Please any help would be appreciated!

[TOM_cg]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

Hello,

It's a bug.

http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?topic=8444.0

[CLHA]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

Thanks Tom,

Good to know that it's just not a problem with me.

Also, I checked your website...your renderings look amazing! Do you think you could share some tips and render settings with me? They truly look amazing.

[LOL server]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

Hope this is the rigth place to post...as this is the latest thread about the DR problem.

Just started working in this new architectural company for some weeks and find out that they use sketchup 7 (now the sketchup 8 ) & the latest vray 1.49.89 for Sketchup....and find out that the DR does not work!!. When do you guys beleive the DR is going to work?

I have looked around this forums and haven't found a precise answer about the new release date or upgrade including DR working properlly.

Meanwhile, we will try to render using 3D Max and vray SP4a with the DR working.

Sorry to sound negative but I do not realy understand why the product is sold when one of the main features do not work! Our company, as many other companies that have bougth the plugin are in a hurry to have the big advantage of the Distributed Rendering...working.

Regards

[dkendig]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

LOL SERVER - .89 resolved some important issues that were a little more important than DR. We weren't too happy about DR being broken either, but it did address the other issues that were at hand, so we released it. The current beta version is looking promising, and we plan on doing another public release soon with a fix for DR.

[jja]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

LOL SERVER - .89 resolved some important issues that were a little more important than DR. We weren't too happy about DR being broken either, but it did address the other issues that were at hand, so we released it. The current beta version is looking promising, and we plan on doing another public release soon with a fix for DR.

HELP! Got the DR working and now it suddently doesn't at all... All my settings are the same and I checked firewalls and IP adresses. Went through the forum without getting any wiser. Think it is a bug?

I really really REALLY hope the update is on the way - do you know when we could hope for it??? deadline coming up shortly.

btw think you should update the manual as well - it is very incomplete.

Love the renderings though

[dkendig]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

jja - If you're using 1.48.89, DR is broken, yes it's a bug, there is no known workaround that I'm aware of. Our latest beta version has DR working again on the PC, but not on Mac (as far as I've been told so far anyway). We don't plan on putting out a public release until DR is working on both platforms. If you would like to be a beta tester, you can sign up here: http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?topic=7679.0 <== The Mighty Bug Hunt!
NOTE: DON'T USE BETA VERSIONS FOR COMMERCIAL WORK! Why? Because it's a beta version for a reason... We don't know how stable it is (or we do, and we know it's not stable enough to use for commercial work), it could cause a scene to become corrupt, or lose information, and so forth. The reason I extended the invitation to test our beta out, is so you can help us ensure that the product is working properly. Obviously DR is important to you, which is great! It could use some testing, to ensure it will be working properly in the next public release.This is an invitation to test our latest version, (which is open to everyone btw) not a workaround. If you want to take part in the beta, just reply to that thread and I'll add you to the testing group.

The manual is the least of our concerns at the moment... the product has some bugs that need to get ironed out before we can work on documentation. Also, our manual is not meant to cover everything that has to do with V-Ray, it's meant as a companion for the V-Ray manual: http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150SP1/ (the manual is for 3D Studio Max, but the settings are the same for the most part). The manual is not supposed to make you a master at the program, it's just supposed to get you up and running. The forums and the V-Ray manual should take care of the rest.

[jja]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

Thanks a lot - I'm using it for commercial work so I think I probably shouldn't sign up.

I was just so happy to see the DR working and then suddently it didn't It does save a lot of time...

[riku]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

Any news about the DR Spawner? This thread seems to have died out....

I'm using SU7 and V-Ray 1.48.89 as of last week. The spawner has worked occasionally (with up to 4 slave machines, sending assets to each node), but more often has reported "error receiving DR scene <0>" and closed the session on all the slaves.

Slave machines all on Windows 7, no firewall issues.

Any thoughts?

[dkendig]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

DR is broken in the beta as well, still working on it. Sorry

[Farren]

Re: DR Spawner not working on Sketchup 7 1.48.89

Just in case anyone comes across this thread as I did, DR is fixed in .98 beta on Mac and PC (at least according to release notes, haven't had the opportunity to test yet).