DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

[tsubiaddict]

Morning all,

I am trying to render a rather large image.... So i have installed Vray DRSpawner on the machine, gathered there IP addresses and clicked render... However as soon as it starts the slaves machines Spawner crashes....

The Host machine is Vista 32 bit Corey took me through the installation process and all is fine. I am able to render a simple image myself... its just doesn't seem to link to the slaves....

The slaves are a mixture of XP and Vista....

If anyone can help me with this issue that would be awesome! Any of the guys at Argvis got a fix or work around would be greatly appreciated.

The model I am working on is about 10Mb at the moment.... it is rather polygon intense in areas... this is why I was hoping to link to other machines...

Fingers Crossed and Kind Regards

Mat

[dalomar_cg]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

I don't think I ever got the spawner in the current release to go back and forth between xp and vista, so I'd pin that down as the major issue. I do think that if it was going to work the slave would be running xp and the host would be running vista. So if you've got a choice you may try that.

[tsubiaddict]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

This has been attempted. Again the Spawners crash, I will remopve all the previous servers first and only add the XP spawners IP address's, will post results, but won't hold my breath!

However when the render did complete after 3.5 hours it looked slick! -- just hope we can iron out the distribution issue then happy days! :P

If you guys have any other thoughts! --- I presume the most efficient way for DRSpawner to work is....

Main machine Vista (or XP)
and the slaves running the same operating system?

I will see if its the Size of the model that causes the slave machines to crash! and again post details!

M

[Sando]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

I'm having a similar problem at the moment. It doesn't seem like DRSpawner can handle large models. I have two machines, Win XP x64 and Vista x64. Both are simlar spec'ed machines and DRSpawner works with smaller less complicated models.

When I try to render a larger model the slave machine start's up ok and creates the tmp file but then after that fails to begin rendering.

Does DRSpawner have a limit to how big the model can be?

Mark

[joe_b]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

First I would make sure that the version of the DRSpawner is the same on all of the machines you are using. I would actually manually delete the DRSpawner from c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\ApplicationData\ASGvis\DRSpawner and then reinstall it. Oh - on Vista it will be located at c:\ProgramData\ASGvis\DRSpawner.

Mixing and matching the spawners will definitely be a problem. As far as mixing XP and Vista, I haven't personally experienced that issue. My development machine is a Mac Book Pro with Vista (Bootcamp ) running on it and it communicates with the other XP workstations ok.

I believe there was an issue with the size of DR scenes. It would try to fit the entire scene into contiuguous memory ( sequential memory ) and that sometimes would not be possible, if there was a good deal of RAM it would be fragmented so contigous RAM would not be found. I am pretty sure we have fixed that in our recent builds.

We are ironing some kinks in our licensing and should be posting another build soon. If your work is being interrupted and you desperately need a newer build then contact me and I'll get you a development build.

[Sando]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

Hi Joe,

Drspawner has been working well since I installed the SR1 pack, but only just recently it has started to crash on a scene that I'm currently working on. DRS starts fine but then during light cache calculations it crashes. The error message says that it terminated in an unusal way and vista will close it.

Has anyone else had a similar error?

[juan.carlos.rioja]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

yep... i do!!!

[Sando]

Re: DRSpawner Crashing when rendering

Juan,

What settings do you use? I'm using 'Enable asset collection' with 'Send to each node'. The scene's that I'm trying to render are 150-200mb. What are your settings and do you know when it crashes?