# pale/dark DR buckets **URL:** \ **Category:** Issues\ **Created:** [October 21, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696 "2013-10-21T12:59:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/1 "2013-10-21T12:59:22Z")
I’m performing a DR and buckets from my local machine are paler than the rest. It seems only to be visible on certain objects, for example, in the attached, on the gold metal picture frames. To be honest, I’m not sure if my local machine is rendering correctly and the slaves are wrong, or vice versa. What’s going on here? Max 2014 Vray 2.40.04 ![light buckets.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/3X/6/4/6403fd009c54c8969a4fa0bb7a13449d47a985f1.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/2 "2013-10-21T13:09:51Z")
Well as usual every time this issue come up the usual answer is- “One of slaves does not have access to textures”. ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/3 "2013-10-21T13:49:50Z")
> [@Ivaylo\_Katev](#): > > Well as usual every time this issue come up the usual answer is- “One of slaves does not have access to textures”. Yes, that is normally what happens, but this is my local machine acting weirdly. ---
**Author:** ![Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/4 "2013-10-21T13:57:09Z")
Then only local machine has access to something that none of the other slaves do… ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/5 "2013-10-21T14:17:25Z")
Asset tracking shows no problems. Everything UNC’d and found as normal. ---
**Author:** ![Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/6 "2013-10-21T14:19:49Z")
Try rendering only with master. Not sure. Can u show us passes? Which pass is different, Reflection? ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/7 "2013-10-21T15:38:28Z")
Will keep trying and post my results ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/8 "2013-10-31T14:33:50Z")
It seems to be something with the reflection channel. See here:- The problem buckets are my local machine (unless all the other machines are wrong and my local machine is right) ![rgb render.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/3X/3/8/38d2cfb64e5a084e9788ac6131621894e23573c3.jpeg) ![reflection.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/2X/0/0f6d8d7b904ee5cf496391ec40c80287ea734185.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Dariusz\_Makowski\_Dadal](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Dariusz_Makowski_Dadal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/9 "2013-10-31T14:49:27Z")
Do you have the same version of vray on all computers? Nightlies? ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/10 "2013-10-31T15:00:03Z")
Same version. No nightlies - just the latest stable release. I am using a vray sun and a vray sky, but I am not sure if the sun is connected to the sky in anyway - I’m just manually positioning the sun where I want it. Can this cause an issue? ---
**Author:** ![TragnarionStudios](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tragnarionstudios/32/29668_2.png) [@TragnarionStudios](https://forums.chaos.com/u/TragnarionStudios)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/11 "2013-10-31T15:09:41Z")
Differents options for resolve problems with the Farms: - Routes, try to put all your routes UNC or relative to the project. - Restart the VraySpawner services in all the Farms o Slaves computers. This link is really interesting. [http://vray.info/tutorials/vray\_distributed\_rendering\_and\_backburner/part3.asp](http://vray.info/tutorials/vray_distributed_rendering_and_backburner/part3.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Morne](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/morne/32/11335_2.png) [@Morne](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Morne)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/12 "2013-10-31T19:32:54Z")
> [@Need help finding four season's post](https://forums.chaos.com/t/need-help-finding-four-seasons-post/42492/21): > > This link is really interesting. > > [http://vray.info/tutorials/vray\_distributed\_rendering\_and\_backburner/part3.asp](http://vray.info/tutorials/vray%5C_distributed%5C_rendering%5C_and%5C_backburner/part3.asp) Thanks for the plug 🙂 Sometimes it helps to simply restart your local pc and also the slaves. Then in your camera view, switch to a different camera and back to the original. Now render and see what happens? We had a VERY weird situation the other day where some boulders from a collection didnt render with textures on the slaves, even though the textures were in the same location and also pathed the same as all the other textures that the scene use. Ended up moving just that one texture to a different folder and repathing and only then it worked. Very weird. This was with max 2014 and vray 2.4 I’m hoping the auto asset collection in Vray 3.0 will sort all these weird issues ---
**Author:** ![svetlozar.draganov](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/svetlozar.draganov/32/53004_2.png) [@svetlozar.draganov](https://forums.chaos.com/u/svetlozar.draganov)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 9:39am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/13 "2013-11-01T09:39:15Z")
Have you also tried Check For Missing Maps option ? ---
**Author:** ![vlado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vlado](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vlado)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/14 "2013-11-01T12:55:01Z")
> [@Checking 'consider for anti-aliasing' on multi matte pass changes beauty pass...?](https://forums.chaos.com/t/checking-consider-for-anti-aliasing-on-multi-matte-pass-changes-beauty-pass/41258/12): > > I’m hoping the auto asset collection in Vray 3.0 will sort all these weird issues It would be good to try that now that the beta is out and let us know if there are any issues. Best regards, Vlado ---
**Author:** ![Mokiki](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/mokiki/32/27702_2.png) [@Mokiki](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Mokiki)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2013, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/15 "2013-11-04T07:42:20Z")
I had a similar problem recently and it turned out that there were different service packs installed on my workstation and the render nodes. That gave me bucket differences too. Could this be the case?. ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/16 "2013-11-11T14:49:44Z")
> [@render farm pricing?](https://forums.chaos.com/t/render-farm-pricing/42532/3): > > I had a similar problem recently and it turned out that there were different service packs installed on my workstation and the render nodes. That gave me bucket differences too. Could this be the case?. Don’t think so. As far as I know everything is the same. Here’s another project exhibiting the same problems:- Its just my local machine cocking things up. Any chance I could send this file to Chaosgroup to figure out what’s happening? ![bucket ref problem buckets.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/2X/e/ec8d3442afeec22589a98a3775985104cc124d73.jpeg) ![bucket ref problem reflection.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/3X/5/0/506484b8a5114eb0d9de24a2f58c65350c111369.jpeg) ![bucket ref problem rgb.jpg](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/original/3X/1/7/17dbbf687deafa6cce33b513f53c340091882570.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![vlado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/779978/32.png) [@vlado](https://forums.chaos.com/u/vlado)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/17 "2013-11-11T15:05:05Z")
> [@Animated Imap - splotchy](https://forums.chaos.com/t/animated-imap-splotchy/42661/4): > > Any chance I could send this file to Chaosgroup to figure out what’s happening? Most certainly you can 🙂 Email us to [vray@chaosgroup.com](mailto:vray@chaosgroup.com) to determine how best to send it. Best regards, Vlado ---
**Author:** ![tricky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/tricky/32/56653_2.png) [@tricky](https://forums.chaos.com/u/tricky)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/18 "2013-11-11T15:14:29Z")
> [@NPR - Golf House](https://forums.chaos.com/t/npr-golf-house/42656/4): > > Most certainly you can 🙂 Email us to [vray@chaosgroup.com](mailto:vray@chaosgroup.com) to determine how best to send it. > > Best regards, > Vlado Just sent the email. ---
**Author:** ![Morne](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/chaosprd/user_avatar/forums.chaos.com/morne/32/11335_2.png) [@Morne](https://forums.chaos.com/u/Morne)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2013, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/19 "2013-11-12T06:17:46Z")
That’s weird. Its almost as if your pc can’t see the HDRI map, but the slaves can, which doesn’t make sense. My guess would also be different service packs or vray builds. Also check that ALL machines have the decimal setup as a . (point) and not a , (comma) In Windows 8 they decided to change the default to comma instead of point ---
**Author:** ![samuel\_bubat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@samuel\_bubat](https://forums.chaos.com/u/samuel_bubat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696/20 "2013-11-13T09:46:19Z")
Probabely that´s not the problem you have but there is also one other thing that makes only your workstation render different. If you have an object with a modifier stack selected and any other modifier than the last one in this stack is selected, while show end result is turned “off” it will render different only on your machine. For example when you have a sphere with an uvw map, the sphere is selected but in the modifier stack the sphere below the uvw map is selected. It will render just on your machine without the uvw map while all the slaves render with the uvw modifier. [Next page](https://forums.chaos.com/t/pale-dark-dr-buckets/46696.md?page=2)