Is it at all possible to get the exact same result from the renderfarm where it’s mixed between VRay 6.20.02 & VRay 7.20.04?
The reason is that we have a large portion of our renderfarm not being able to run VRay 7 due to AVX/2 requirements.
But when I test render, there are some small noticable isssues between the two, that when run as an animation would cause flickkering …
See attched JPGs.
It’s most notable on the book on the coffeetable, the denoisining (I think) of the cushions of the couch (the furtest corners) and the rim on the jeeptire in the back.
It would be so great if I got them to render exactlty the same, as I already managed to setup workflow so that we can start max with either Vray 6 or & using bats & Environment Variables.
Would there be settings for instance that translate better from 6 to 7 as opposed to others?
it’s generally not a great idea to render with different versions, for reasons you are now finding. A dot version or something minor might be fine, but a major version difference is asking for trouble. :-\
If you have no choice for getting everything on the same version, I would create groups on your farm, to render some shots on v6 and some shots on v7. That way at least you don’t have any differences from frame to frame in the same shot and can still utilize the full farm. Or can you roll the V7 render machines back to V6?
I know it’s generally not a good Idea. Hell, I’ve had mismatches within the same major version’s updates. But my hands are forced.
Either I move to VRay 7 and write of 40 rendernodes (ouch), leaving me with just 4 VRay7 rendernods, or I create a monster. Which would mean I leave my users on VRay 6 for as long as possible and allow a handful to use batfiles to switch starting max with VRay 6 or VRay 7 and allow them
to render only the 4 AVX2 capabe rendernodes. I really need those 4 to ALSO be available for my VRay6 users, since they are by far the fastest rendernodes (with the most memory as well).
