Network rendering with backburner don't open with VRay Frame Buffer

[woohoou]

Hi Grant,
I don't know if I am missing something, but when I sent a job (or multiple) to Network Rendering, the job start render with default 3ds max virtual frame buffer not the VRay Frame Buffer even if the option is active within Vray Tab in RPManager dialog. So the project miss the color corrections and all related with the VRay Frame Buffer.

I already tried opening VFB and set color corrections with maxscript at the before script section.

I'm using Vray 3.5 and 3ds MAx 2017 in the Host and Server nodes.

Can you help me told me if I'm doing something wrong? or how can I solve the problem?
I appreciate your help.

Cheers,
Heber.

[admin]

Hi

I assume you have the vray output setup (using the RPM auto vray output)?

Do you also have the 'Save File' checkbox on the 'Common Params' checkbox turned off (and maybe the 'VFB' as well)? With that off max shouldn't be trying to save its own buffer, I can only think that isn't off on the network; best way to check would be to find the submitted scene file on the backburner server box and open it up (with RPM closed) and see what the default state of that is for the saved fil.

cheers,
grant

[woohoou]

Hi Grant,

Thanks for the quick response, I did more test in the weekend but with no luck. The tests were able and disable the Save File, VFB and Net Render checkbox in Common params sections, every time it open Virtual Frame Buffer in render nodes.

Do you have more ideas that what I'm doing wrong?. Unfortunately is an important part of our workflow.





Thank you for the help,
Heber.

[admin]

Hi

Firstly, that UI doesn't look correct - the pass list is narrower than it should be, I don't know why there is that gap on the right and below it. Do others see RPM like that?

You might also want to update to 6.52, it has been updated for the vray 3.6 UI:

http://www.rpmanager.com/installers/RPM ... p_6.52.exe


Regarding the vray output, your second image is showing that the vray raw path hasn't been set along with the 'Render to raw vray image file' checkbox being unchecked, so vray won't be saving the image (I assume that is what you want?). You can use RPM to automatically populate the vray raw output if you use the RPM auto pathing and then turn on the vray raw management in the 'Vray Cache/Raw Manager' dialog - the section at the bottom is where you can turn on auto raw path, and also set whether it outputs to .exr or .vrimg.

Even if you don't setup the auto output, try setting the vray raw path to a valid .exr path, and the 'Render to raw vray image' onand see if that does what you want.



There is info on the auto build paths here:

http://www.rpmanager.com/documentation/ ... tput_paths

The way the vray auto path works is that it grabs the path that is set for the 3dsmax output - ie by the auto pathing - and uses that for the vray raw output. If your main output is set to exr you do need to make sure you turn off the 'save file' checkbox in the common params, otherwise it can overwrite the vray output though if it's set to something like .png then the vray raw will still be set to .exr and they won't overwrite (though you'll get extra png's which you may not like). Hope that makes sense.

cheers,
grant

[JClarke]

[admin]

Hi

I'm not recommending you render to vrimg, they are huge and require converting - set the vray raw path with the .exr extension and it'll export to a multichannel exr (use the split in addition if you want split channels). The RPM vray auto pathing has a dropdown to select either exr or vrimg.

grant