Anima 6.3.0 failing to render on network rendering

[daniel_creekmore]

I am unable to network render Anima scenes on more than one machine at a time. 3DS Max crashes on load on all other network machines if one is running an Anima render. The error is unspecific. Just says 3DS Max failed to load. If I remove Anima assets the scene renders just fine on the network. This seems to have started with Anima 6.

Running 3DSMax 2026.3, VRay 7.2.4, Anima 6.3.0, Pulze Render Manager

Any suggestions on how to diagnose this further?

[matthew_allen]

@daniel_creekmore

I am unable to network render Anima scenes on more than one machine at a time. 3DS Max crashes on load on all other network machines if one is running an Anima render. The error is unspecific. Just says 3DS Max failed to load. If I remove Anima assets the scene renders just fine on the network. This seems to have started with Anima 6.

Running 3DSMax 2026.3, VRay 7.2.4, Anima 6.3.0, Pulze Render Manager

Any suggestions on how to diagnose this further?

Did you get to the bottom of this? I’m just about to install Anima on our farm, but I didn’t get the Render Node option as detailed here. I’m wondering if they’ve done away with the Render Node specific installation and just install the same version regardless of how it’s being used, but equeally it sounds like it could throw up a an issue similar to yours.