This is following on from my last post: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17289
I’ve started a new topic because after further testing, I’ve realised that the issue has nothing to do with the combination of 64-bit and 32-bit machines. Hope this doesn’t break a forum rule.
I cannot use distributed rendering with Max 9. I am running Max 9 and VRay 1.5 RC3 (without a dongle). The client machine starts okay, and the V-Ray messages window says
connected to render host 172.31.1.58
connected to render host 172.31.1.29
Using 2 hosts for distributed rendering
then, after setting up the scene is says
Server 172.31.1.58 Scene loaded: starting render.
Server 172.311.58: Starting frame 725729
Server 172.31.1.29 Scene loaded: starting render.
Server 172.311.29: Starting frame 1152123
warning: Render host unknown (172.31.1.58) not responding
warning: Render host unknown (172.31.1.29) not responding
Shouldn’t the starting frame be frame 0 for both servers? And why, when they’re not responding, are they suddenly unknown?
Try running the new BB manager on those PCs and set them.
Also make sure your PCs are identically installed (considering V-Ray) and the ports:
30303 - software license
30304 - hardware dongle
Yeah; in the System rollout of V-Ray, change the V-Ray log file to e.g. “c:\failed_log.txt”; save the scene and try to render with DR. After that, please send me to vlado@chaosgroup.com the file “c:\failed_log.txt” from one of the failed slaves, so that I can take a look at what may be wrong.
Hi Vlado, i have the same problem but it happens on a 64bit DR, no 32 nods.
I noticed that DRing a simple scene without maps make it works, as just as i load a bit complex scene, some texture etc, it doesn’t work more; any news from a newer release? A workaround would be appreciated as well.
Yes ! I have some problems too with dr. It may start on every slave
but stop after a while. Sometime, just one stops and sometimes some
of them or all of them stop.
Very unpredictable and desepointed…
Great problem.
Gael
Is this a software license issue?
We can’t get some of our slaves to pick up a license since installing R3. Have tried everything including copy the patch dll over the new install dll?
You need to install on the render slaves with the “software license” option (*do not* copy any .dlls from other v-ray versions). This will cause the slaves to not require a license at all when 3dsmax is started in slave mode.
I don’t mean to dig up an old post but I just installed RC3 on a fresh workstation w/ max9 and am having problems w/ the DR picking up all the processors of my slave machines. My host machine shows 4 buckets but I only get one bucket per slave machine. Each slave is a dual/dual set up that used to show 4 buckets per machine. Each slave is showing about 30% usage in the task manager. Any Ideas what I might be doing wrong? Sorry if my terminology is off but I think that you get the point. I miss my 30 buckets.
