Hi everyone. I’m currently using Vray for Maya 2.30.01 on Maya 2013 SP2. We noticed that in this version, the “transfer missing assets,” option in distributed rendering is no longer available. We thought it was automatically on now, but we keep getting missing textures from the render slaves. Can…

Thanks for replying Vlado. If I want to stay on this version 2.30.1, is there a work around in order to get the render slaves to pick up the textures?

Sure, just put them on a shared network resource where all the machines can see them. Best regards, Vlado

We are already working off a shared network resource that all the machines have access to but the textures still fail to be read by the render slaves. We also have access to the nightly builds. Can you recommend a particular nightly build that you know that the “transfer missing assets,” option in …

[image] Render Layer override diffuse on VRayMtl not working? We are already working off a shared network resource that all the machines have access to but the textures still fail to be read by the render slaves. In that case can you show me the error messages from the slaves when they fail to…

Vlado, Where can we find the render slave logs (in a default Windows installation)? Thanks!

Do you run the render servers as a Windows service? If yes, what user is the service running as? If it is the default system user, it may not have access to the network location with the textures. Best regards, Vlado

The IT guy here is wondering where on the render slaves he goes to check the logs?

Vray logs by default are saved in windows temp directory. You can easily access it by typing %temp% in windows explorer.

[image] Render out of view Vray logs by default are saved in windows temp directory. You can easily access it by typing %temp% in windows explorer. This is true, but the log goes into the temp folder for the user that the service runs with. So if it runs with the default system user, the fold…

Great. Thanks. I’ll let the IT guy know.

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This is true, but the log goes into the temp folder for the user that the service runs with. So if it runs with the default system user, the folder will be something like c:\windows\temp

Best regards,
Vlado

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