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[Max] General Discussion / Corona DR and admin privilegies
« on: 2015-10-07, 13:22:40 »
Hello
I wanted to ask if there is possibility to change folder , where DRserver.exe stores all it's files logs and retained EXR's
Thing is that now it stores them in Program Files , and that can be issues not only for us but for some companies as well , because thus it requires administrator privileges to run. But being able to change it - i can point it to use a LAN resource for example for fast monitoring the process and issues resolve.
And actually one more thing, it would be really nice to have a separate CFG or INI file for distributed rendering slaves list , to sit somewhere , or with ability to point where it should be. It may be needed when you want to make a separate server with fixed distributed slaves being associated with it. Do not want to compare with VRay , but it is done like that there and it is really convinient , also changing this CFG files gives ability to remove / add distributed slaves on the fly , which gives quite of possibilities for render farm management.
Also i've run to a quite weird thing - distributed rendering process is going well , one slave is connected and rendering fine with constant updates , though it is missing from DR list in Corona viewport. When i stop render on master machine - it updates and showing connection and amount of passes. Any reason for that ?
UP : found out solution and reason for the last one - it is because of the Lock 3Dsmax during rendering option turned on. If it is turned off - slave list is being updated , but at some point 3dsmax starts to be completely unresponsible and i cannot see framebuffer at all - it is white. Though rendering process is going - i can see that by autosaves it does. Of course in both cases Corona VFB is turned on.
Also would be really nice to have 3 more features for bucket rendering
First one is to have a frame on currently rendering bucket , to see where process is now , as when you have 2 or more passes - it is almost impossible to track where buckets are now.
The second is to have possibility to point with mouse where next bucket should be - really good to have this feature.
And the third is possibility to adjust size of the buckets , that is quite handy when you need to check small details fast , instead of rendering are around you point with mouse exactly on those details.
Thanks !
Regards
I wanted to ask if there is possibility to change folder , where DRserver.exe stores all it's files logs and retained EXR's
Thing is that now it stores them in Program Files , and that can be issues not only for us but for some companies as well , because thus it requires administrator privileges to run. But being able to change it - i can point it to use a LAN resource for example for fast monitoring the process and issues resolve.
And actually one more thing, it would be really nice to have a separate CFG or INI file for distributed rendering slaves list , to sit somewhere , or with ability to point where it should be. It may be needed when you want to make a separate server with fixed distributed slaves being associated with it. Do not want to compare with VRay , but it is done like that there and it is really convinient , also changing this CFG files gives ability to remove / add distributed slaves on the fly , which gives quite of possibilities for render farm management.
Also i've run to a quite weird thing - distributed rendering process is going well , one slave is connected and rendering fine with constant updates , though it is missing from DR list in Corona viewport. When i stop render on master machine - it updates and showing connection and amount of passes. Any reason for that ?
UP : found out solution and reason for the last one - it is because of the Lock 3Dsmax during rendering option turned on. If it is turned off - slave list is being updated , but at some point 3dsmax starts to be completely unresponsible and i cannot see framebuffer at all - it is white. Though rendering process is going - i can see that by autosaves it does. Of course in both cases Corona VFB is turned on.
Also would be really nice to have 3 more features for bucket rendering
First one is to have a frame on currently rendering bucket , to see where process is now , as when you have 2 or more passes - it is almost impossible to track where buckets are now.
The second is to have possibility to point with mouse where next bucket should be - really good to have this feature.
And the third is possibility to adjust size of the buckets , that is quite handy when you need to check small details fast , instead of rendering are around you point with mouse exactly on those details.
Thanks !
Regards