We seems to have a problem with the DR today here. Yesterday night everything was working fine. But today, we cannot render with the network for a reason we don’t know. The network don’t seems to see the maps that are at the same files as usual. We use Vray 1.5 SP1 with 2 dongles.
Every computers in the network see each other, see the files for the maps, etc… We ping each one to confirm that it’s ok. We start the network twice. The computers see the WIBU-KEY from Chaos Group( dongles ). But all we can do is use the computer that have the dongle. No network.
Did we do something wrong? What could have happen in less than 10 hours ( night time )from the moment everything was perfect and this morning.
we send the .log to Vlado. we wait his comments. Any clue someone?
here’s what vray log message said. when i check in vray settings ‘’ check for missing files ‘’
server 192.168.2.6: missing maps found; aborting render.
All office slaves are like that today. We ping everything. and all computer see the files where the maps are located. Yesterday for the first time with 1.5 sp1 it was working really well. but 8 hours later… no more textures in the DR.
I see a post that vlado reply and he said ( maybe permissions is bad )
i see another post that said ‘’ Edit the .vrscene file with a text editor and change the path ‘’
well after a day of looking where the problem is, the deadline of a lot of project are off…
maps and textures are missing in the Distributed renderings. We start Vray on the slaves manually like always… all computers see each other. no firewall known, permission or something else known…
Any clue someone? if you think of a way to resolve this. do not hesitate to write…
thanks
network, 6 computers’ 5 are windows xp 32 and the latest add is 64 bit xeon 5355. the first 12 hours of test were incredible with the latest computer… how come the slaves on all network do not see the directories… vray 1.5 sp1 2 dongles… mmmm weird.
It should work if you copy the maps to a local folder on all the slaves and the workstation to the same folder on all machines, c:\maps for instance. then change the paths in the file to c:/maps/…
excuse my bad english, but isn’t it a waste of time. if we do it each time…if we forget to put the maps on one local computer and then launch the render and leave the office. next morning… euhhh i forget.
is it a way that vray 1.5 sp1 refused to look in a folder if ( i dont know i ask ) permissions are not good, is there any lines in the code that specified that.
Queswtion i see in some post < UNC path > what does that mean?
btw.. what is the most strange thing is that it was working very well 2 days ago… and now no more maps and textures…
It happen that we have a very small farm just 3 machine. After
installing 1.50 and trying DR with the machine we were having
problem starting at first. It seems that the DR wont start if it is
ran in the windows service background. So we have to stop that
and start it manually. After which it renders well … however…
Next day returning to the office … the DR did not behave itself
with the manual startup and we checked that the background
service was turned off. Then it happen when we plug in the dongle
then it decided “ok cool that’s wat I needed” and so started rendering
… . Nonetheless it is still a PROBLEM big one in fact becos deadline
rely on it. DR spawner don’t need a dongle does it? Or maybe I got
it wrong …
Now we tot it was ok for 3 machines what if those farm have 100
machines that will be alot of work haha ( not trying to be funny ) it’s
a bitter laugh.
If spawner is running as a service it needs to run with full admin rights, see victor’s post, and even then it can loose its connection to the drives. Best to run it as an exe.
UNC paths are “\\server_name\drive_share\my_maps\…” instead of “D:\my_maps\…”
1- does it render with maps if you turn the check off?
Answer… It render fast, but again, no map. Only grey bucket.
2- Does it render locally with the check on?
Answer… Yes , only locally. But, my goodness it’s so long… hahaha
By the way, about the Deadlines. Here we have around 4-8 deadlines rush each week. so i can’t imagine transfer on local computer the maps and textures each time we need an image. That’s why the solution for writing on each slaves the path isn’t an option. I’m sure we did something wrong in the installation. Usually, ( at our opinion ) Chaos Group did always a good job to helps us or to find a clue.
But for this one, ( maps missed in the Distributed rendering ) we are still in the dark…
Thanks to all of u who try to help us. We really appreciate this community.
We do not have an answer for you yet as far as this question is concerned; V-Ray does not deal with textures directly as they are handled by 3ds Max, not by V-Ray. We are trying to narrow down the issue (if there is any at all on the V-Ray side), but at least for the time being, copying the maps locally is the only method that we are 100% sure that works.
maybe this is the real problem, not missing textures …