I appreciate this site is specifically intended for Vray questions so I will keep my question related, but if anyone has ever set up a single render slave to work with 3Ds Max, Backburner and Vray, please get in touch asap! I would love to hear from you as the customer support I have received lately from the companies involved has been unbelievably poor!! (Happy to do a Skype session!)
Ok, so forgive me if I sound a bit of a noob here, but my experience with setting up a render slave is next to none.
In the last few days I have worked out how to transfer 3Ds Max (deployment version) over to the render slave and set up the Backburner. At this point, V-Ray has just been installed on the slave and it now requests that I set up the location for the V-Ray license server to activate it. How do I do this? I assume this is looking for a path to the dongle on my main computer? Do I need a second dongle to activate V-Ray on the render slave? If so, how do I get hold of one? If not, how do I direct the path to the license server that is in C:// drive on my main machine??
On the render server, when V-Ray asks for the license server address, you need to enter the IP address (or the computer name) of the machine where the dongle is installed and where the V-Ray license server is running. You do not need to have a second dongle. If you don’t know what’s the IP address or the computer name of the machine with the dongle, let me know and I’ll explain how to find it.
Best regards,
Vlado
P.S. Isn’t it odd that these types of posts always come in on the week end Our support guys will be happy to arrange a Skype session, but this will need to happen on Monday.
To fix the “Cannot save settings” error: go to Start menu > All programs > Chaos Group > V-Ray for 3ds Max > Licensing > Administration > Right click on the “Change V-Ray client license settings” shortcut and select “Run as Administrator” - then enter the license server data and click OK. It should be able to save the new settings without errors.
Fantastic!!!
V-Ray accepted…
its just rendering a black scene at the mo, but im just gonna check with a light and see if thats the cause!
thanks again, i’ll be straight back if i cant get it running
I am running into the same issue with a new render slave node and Vray not finding the license. I have attached a screen cap of what I see and how I have it set up. I am running Win8.1. Could there be an issue there?
I set up some rendernodes yesterday and noticed none of them finds the vray licence, which is set up correctly and running. It turned out the problem is the windows firewall on the computer which hosts the licence. At the moment, I’m trying to figure out how to solve this. Strange, never had this before.
Yes! Thank you Bibi5000. I remember that from awhile ago. We should just be able to add it to the saved/safe programs on the firewall. Many many thanks!
You should allow V-Ray license server through the Firewall. The port that it is using is 30304.
So on the machine where the license server is running please make sure that V-Ray License server is in the exception list.
