Question about active shade DR assets?

[biochemical_animations]

How are the assets handled, specifically an HDR light image, when using active shade and DR in GPU mode on RT? Does the renderer first look on the local computer for the asset (for example the render nodes) before transferring the asset from the workstation to the node? Or are all assets automatically transferred initially?

[vlado]

V-Ray will first look for the asset locally on the render server and if it's not found then it will ask the master machine to send it over.

Best regards,
Vlado

[biochemical_animations]

Cool...that's what I was hoping for, because I wanted to copy my HDR to the render nodes, as this works fastest and best.