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by Strob
Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:28 pm
Forum: Max
Topic: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task
Replies: 5
Views: 10515

Re: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task

Yes that is the question, I will ask on the vray forum.
by Strob
Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:56 pm
Forum: Max
Topic: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task
Replies: 5
Views: 10515

Re: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task

Now it seems to work very well by just putting 1 frame by task in each of my jobs. That way the scene is reloaded every frame. But I would like to try to restart only V-Ray to see if I can gain performance (and not the entire machine).
by Strob
Sat Dec 09, 2017 1:46 am
Forum: Max
Topic: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task
Replies: 5
Views: 10515

Re: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task

I wonder if it has something to do with V-Ray. For example deadline has a feature to restart only the renderer between frames: (from deadline doc:) Restart Renderer Between Frames: This option can be used to force Deadline to restart the renderer after each frame to avoid some potential problems wit...
by Strob
Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:22 pm
Forum: Max
Topic: Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task
Replies: 5
Views: 10515

Max V-Ray: better to use 1 frame by task

I had a lot of problems with task with multiple frames where some slaves will render the first frame ok and then they were missing cache and texture for the subsequent frames. But since I set my tasks at 1 frame by task, everything slave render fine! I use 3ds max 2018, V-Ray 3.60.04 and windows 10,...
by Strob
Sun Nov 26, 2017 6:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: Frame list
Replies: 1
Views: 3965

Frame list

Hi,

Is there a way to specify a frame list with the starter? Instead of just setting a start and end frames, something like (3,8,15,34-45,89-100).
by Strob
Fri Nov 24, 2017 6:34 pm
Forum: Max
Topic: Task progress 0% and missing options on right click
Replies: 6
Views: 10363

Re: Task progress 0% and missing options on right click

Ok thanks I will try that!
by Strob
Tue Nov 21, 2017 5:16 pm
Forum: General
Topic: 1 Salve just completing tasks without rendering.
Replies: 2
Views: 4702

Re: 1 Salve just completing tasks without rendering.

Hey I got it to work!!! :D The bad slave was my workstation and for some reason that one needed some fix. I went to my 3dsmaxcmd.exe file properties and I set it to "run as administrator" and now it works!!! I tried setting it back to "run as administrator" unchecked and it could...
by Strob
Tue Nov 21, 2017 7:32 am
Forum: General
Topic: 1 Salve just completing tasks without rendering.
Replies: 2
Views: 4702

1 Salve just completing tasks without rendering.

Hi, i have a first production render going on now. Out of 13 slaves 1 is not behaving correctly: that one just complete the task without rendering them. And there is no error in the log, the tasks are just logged as finished with success. In the render.cmd window, it just output the same as the othe...
by Strob
Mon Nov 20, 2017 2:10 pm
Forum: Max
Topic: Task progress 0% and missing options on right click
Replies: 6
Views: 10363

Re: Task progress 0% and missing options on right click

I think the problem lies in the fact that when rendering with 3ds max and V-Ray, the 3ds max output file checkbox must be off and instead we use the V-Ray VFB output file checkbox to output the file by V-Ray directly instead. So when we do that the submission script in afstarter does not see the ima...
by Strob
Mon Nov 20, 2017 1:44 pm
Forum: VRay
Topic: Vray Parser update to create thumbnails
Replies: 7
Views: 13016

Re: Vray Parser update to create thumbnails

Ok I will try to play with this script to understand it.