distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

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can someone help me? I’m having sketchup6 Pro running on 3 dual core vista machines with the VfSu SR1 RC1. With the “older” VfSU version I had no ÃœProblem with DR for a single frame. (but had the known issues at rendering animations - only 1st Frame was rendered by the slave machines).

So I installed the SR1 RC hoping i coudl Now render animation s with Dr on my machines as a small Renderfarm.

But Now I can’t even render a singele frame with Dr. Everytime I start rendering, the Drspawner on the slave-machines crashes and the Host machine is rendering the scene all by itself.

- all machines are Win Vista Buiseness, and have VfSu RC1 or the Drspawner of the RC1 (custum-installation) installed.

any Idea what the problem is?

Hans

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

hi.. have you found a solution to this problem yet?

i’ve just experienced it, and i’d appreciate some help…

cheers

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

nope sorry - doesn’t work and I have no idea what’s the problem

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

I’ve got the same problem too. I’ve tried DR on the camaro tutorial.. it ran fine across three machines (vista64-main pc, vista32-slave, xp32-slave). Yet when I tried rendering across a more complicated model (with about 50 textures, and lots of polygons, lighting) it crashes just after I hit the Render button.

Latest versions of all.

If anyone has any ideas i’d really like to hear them.

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

Hey guys,

It appears that you may have stumbled across a bug of some sort. If any (or all) of you get a chance, please submit this through our bug tracking system.

Here’s where to go:

Please provide as much detail as you can.

Thank you

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

Ok guys, I tried the RC2 and yes, DR. works again but with the same bug as in v1.00. On animations only the fist farme ist rendered by all machines, after this only the host has to do the work

PLEASE get this Damn DR to work properly.

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

Hanswurst- We understand that you’re frustrated, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We have fixed this problem, and it will be in the next release.

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

Yiepieehhhh!

Love You guys ;), Hearing that you fixed this problem sounds like christmas to me :wink:

good work! :)=

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

ok guys,

Now I’ve installed the SR1 and looked for the DR on animations. An d somehow sometime it works an other times it doesnt - an can’t really repoduce this issue. becaus it works/don’t on the same scene.
I’m very Happy That it works (from tzime to time) but i can’t figure out under which circumstances it work an under which it won’t.

Does anyone have a similar problem - and maybe a explantation what how to do it right, and how do to it “wrong”? :wink:

Hans

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Re: distributed rendering - drSpawner crashes when starting to render

experiencing the same problem. When is the next release coming out?