DRSpawner Black Squares

[JHuman]

DRSpawner is rendering an image, I have 8 computers plus mine making 18 rendering cores. A lot of them are starting to come out black and / or white, rendering parts of objects (ie: plants but not the ground). All the files are in the same directory they have always been in on our network. I have tryed copying the files out to a new SU file but then the renderer takes hours to respond. Any help would be awsome, the model is due tomorrow!

[JHuman]

Re: DRSpawner Black Squares

OK, so I went through and remapped all the materials, including the vismats and it seems to be running now. Any other suggestions would be good.

[dalomar_cg]

Re: DRSpawner Black Squares

The first thing that comes to mind of what would cause that would be a version difference between VfSU and the spawners. There's no specific way to check the version of the spawner, so I'd suggest trying a DR render with just one node to see if it exhibits the same black buckets that you see, then reinstall spawner and try again. If you don't see them any more, then that's most likely it. Check that and see if that does the trick.

[JHuman]

Re: DRSpawner Black Squares

Thanks dalomar. I know the versions should be upto date. All are running SU7 and VR4SU 1.5, there is one machine that will never take jobs, dunno thats another post, buuuut. I checked them with just mine and another node and it works, not used to it being this slow.

[dalomar_cg]

Re: DRSpawner Black Squares

It may possibly be a thing of sending the file to that many computers, which is more of a network thing probably than anything else. I haven't heard of that though. Maybe you can try adding additional machines until you start to see issues. As to the one machine that won't take jobs, check its firewall/port settings and see if its allowing the connection.