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View 5 RepliesIt is actually a typical 2 clicks crash, and with it at least 1/4 of MR Rendering Engine has to be declared as totally damaged.
- Crate a sphere, MentalRay Dayligh + MRsky + Mr Exposure (or load my scene from attch.)
- Create camera and animate it around the sphere
- setup FinalGather to "Project along camera path" with 9 Camera segments (basically standard settings)
- Single File Only (best form walk through)
--> and press below on your computer "Generate FG Map File Now from 0-100"... (on a single machine, no network render)
From 0 to 10th frame it will always crash, we have tested it an all machines in the company. The debugger dives deep into mental ray libs, so we can't read it...
try to render it in Max2011. If it crashs, then MR-FG is broken and you can render FG not anymore locally. If not, then we have overseen something.
I have set up an additional 4 machines as satellites to use with mental ray dbr.
While the test renders I have performed complete successfully, every time I run a distributed render, I receive the following errors:
LINK20.0 6 MB error 191007: cannot load .shaders_standardmentalrayshaders/SubstanceShader.dll, The specified module could not be found.
LINK20.0 6 MB error 191012: Unable to load file: SubstanceShader.dll
LINK20.n 9 MB error 191007: cannot load SubstanceShader.dll, The specified module could not be found.
LINK20.n 9 MB error 191012: Unable to load file: SubstanceShader.dll
These are all installs of 3ds Max Design 2013, with Update 1 installed, and recently PU05 installed. All machines are running Windows 7 x64
I've checked the folders on each render node and they all have the SubstanceShader.dll installed and available. I tried setting the permissions on the AutoDesk install folder to "Everyone" having full access.
Using maya 2013/MR to render with the optimised texture(the converted .map textures in sourceimage/cache)
i have done some tests on this issue, and kind of confirm my maya 2013/MR would not utilise the .map textures at render time, whereas in maya 2009/MR, i can clearly see the render progress window indicates that the .map textures are being used at render time; plus, with maya 2009/MR, i can see obvious memory drops when batch render with the optimised textures.
Why maya 2013/MR would not use the .map textures? or did i mis some new setting somewhere with 2013?
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