This is an odd one. Up until this afternoon, everything I sent to render over the network was fine. Then suddenly, no more render window. The status comes up - so I can see how far through it is, i just cant see the render itself. If I switch off network rendering I get a window locally, it’s switched on and is still checked (albeit greyed out) when i turn network rendering on.
I thought it may be a multi monitor thing, but when i start the server on my own machine I don’t get a window either. It’s just any network job kills my render window.
Tried the task manager → bring to front thing and nothing.
It’s kind of weird, and particularly bothersome because it’s a friday and I cant see a single thing on any of these renders so now I have to come in tomorrow to check them.
Up until about 3pm today it had never happened and now it happens on everything I send, even scenes that were working this morning - opening a fresh scene, resetting it and sending it to the network doesn’t work either. it’s baffling. Anyone ever seen this?
I’ve not seen my render windows at all since, and can see no way to bring them back. it’s starting to really annoy me. I’m sick of having to wait for a full 1hr+ render to check some minor things, and sending stills at a lower res for everything i’m doing right now is really slowing me down.
1. Rendered Frame Window, is ticked when submitting the job.
2. Render window is off outside of the monitor screen view
3. Render window has been minimized and needs to be brought back
Does this only happen in a single file? Or on a specific computer?
If it’s the VRay VFB you could try “Show last VFB”, as the focus should now be on the VFB press alt+space, then m (for English Windows at least), then press an arrow key and then move your mouse pointer. This trick brought back many of my windows.
If that doesn’t work there’s a reset all max windows on (probably) scriptspot.
There’s also a ‘Rendered Frame Window’ option the the common max render settings.
Rendered frame window is ticked - it works locally, but not if I send it through the network and start the server on my machine.
Al files since it started. Fresh files after resetting max, and old files which previously worked.
I’ve disabled my second monitor and restarted all the render nodes, still nothing.
This is all I see. the machine i sent it from is 1920x1080 with the second monitor unplugged/disabled, as is my remote window. bring to front/switch to just makes the progress window flicker like it’s only pulling that up.
I’ll try using the VFB, I usually disable it for animations though because I cant stand how it handles saving separate elements when doing revisions.
