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[Max] General Discussion / Installing Corona on home system

« on: 2024-04-03, 17:00:59 »

Hi all.

I'm asking the Autodesk forum a similar question but in regards to Max.

I've basically asked Autodesk; if I don't have Max open on my office system but it's network rendering, does that mean I'm allowed to open and use Max at home?

I don't want to get stung by Autodesk

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Same question applies to Corona - we have 11 licenses of Corona Premium  & 1x 5 Render Nodes.

If I'm network rendering in the office & I can use Max at home..... can I also use Corona

It's probably important to know that all systems will be rendering in the office.

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As with Autodesk - I don't want to be stung by Chaos.

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona License Not Found

« on: 2024-03-25, 21:36:04 »

Hi,

The internet in the office was fine - I checked with people and I was working from home and logged onto my office system.

So in this case I don't think our internet was the cause.

I'm can't be faffing with borrowing licenses on 11 systems so will see what they say & will let them know the same

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona License Not Found

« on: 2024-03-25, 18:00:10 »

Here's a screenshot

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[Max] I need help! / Corona License Not Found

« on: 2024-03-25, 17:54:22 »

Hi,

I've sent a ticket to Chaos with the same message as below.

Does anyone here have any ideas?

I can see there have been license issues today

https://status.chaos.com/

Thanks
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All of a sudden we've lost our Corona licenses in the office.

This happened last week too but seemed to sort itself out.

We can't do anything, render, material editor is slow or frozen etc.

I've attached 2x screenshots.

This is affecting all 11x systems.

Do you know why this is happening and how it can be stopped in the future?

We can't do anything at the moment until Corona works again.

Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: A system in the office isn't saving animation scenes correctly

« on: 2024-03-19, 14:41:27 »

We currently have animations rendering so can't risk updating Corona yet.

My colleague would have saved onto our network. I'll ask him to save onto his desktop to test it.

I can save on either and it'll run fine.

Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / A system in the office isn't saving animation scenes correctly

« on: 2024-03-19, 10:50:14 »

Hi all,

We have a system in the office that, when saving animation scenes, doesn't seem to be saving them correctly.

Our render manager (Renderpal) brings up this error:

Chunk error: The renderer returned an error-code (0x3)

To fix the issue with the scene, all I need to do is load it up on my system, and save as a new scene.

It then renders fine.

Any ideas what might be the cause?

My colleague doesn't have any issues loading or saving scenes & Max is working fine.

We're using Max 2024.1 & Corona 10 (hotfix 1)

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Animation not rendering on some systems

« on: 2024-03-15, 18:53:41 »

Perfect, that's worked on my system - will do the rest

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Animation not rendering on some systems

« on: 2024-03-15, 18:25:15 »

When you say 'just remove the integration'.... Do you know how?

Short of uninstalling Connecter, I can't see how to remove the integration from Max

Any ideas?

Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Animation not rendering on some systems

« on: 2024-03-15, 15:15:07 »

That's really interesting

How did you determine this?

Connecter 6 has been updating recently and I have had a 'successful integration' message on my system.

We'll likely be losing Connecter before August due to the free teams change (going to subscription)

It seems that the more advanced it gets, the more features, the more issues

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Animation not rendering on some systems

« on: 2024-03-15, 12:47:25 »

Thanks,

I've made a post on the Autodesk forum but it's been flagged as spam for some reason.

Annoying. 

There is this topic: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/distutils-deprecation-warning/m-p/12156916#M208859

It seems to be an issue on startup - maybe a plugin issue (not sure if it's a Python plugin or a max script/plugin).

There's no reason this should suddenly be happening (FFS)

Thanks again

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Animation not rendering on some systems

« on: 2024-03-15, 09:41:56 »

We're using RenderPal

Old I know - and no longer in business (so I just try to keep it alive).

It's really odd.

We haven't updated Max, Corona.... anything recently.

And we're always rendering animations so I can see no reason for it.

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[Max] I need help! / Animation not rendering on some systems

« on: 2024-03-15, 08:45:31 »

Hi all,

I'm posting a bit of my life story here for context.

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I'm having a bit of a nightmare with a job. 

As far as I understand it's gone pretty smoothly - high res statics went to the client, every 25th tests were done for the animation.

Then, when trying to render it with our render manager it wouldn't render.

I then took over to fix the issue - Currently I wish I hadn't offered.

Sooooooo, I recreated the shots (all I really did was load the save and resave the scene) and they were rendering fine

However, they were taking too long to parse the scene.

Yesterday I spent most of the day optimising the scene

It then wouldn't render again

After a lot of testing (I was up until about 1am) I realised that it was one of the proxy trees

I turned them into a mesh, put a cube below it & attached it to the tree (this is what we've done in the past to fix dodgy objects (it seems to work))  - I then re-proxied and replaced.

IT WAS RENDERING - WHOOOOP

I left a system rendering the cache and went to bed.

This morning - 5 of the 9 systems are rendering the animation.

The others are giving this error - Does anyone know what the hell this means and what's going on?

15/03/2024 05:27:14: 15/03/2024 5:27:12 AM;  Error rendering frame 358: <string>:8: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib and slated for removal in Python 3.12; see the module's documentation for alternative uses


Let me know if you need any more information but we're using Max 2024 - Corona 10 (hotfix 1) - We have no issues with animations normally so I don't see why the Max version & Corona

Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / Max randomly crashing when changing timeline frame

« on: 2024-03-12, 15:41:28 »

Hi all,

I didn't put this under bug section because I don't know if Corona is to blame for the issue - I'm also posting on the 3DS Max forum.

I've had Max crashes randomly for the last week.

It happens when changing to a different frame.  I've got some things animated but that's nothing unusual.

My colleague has also had similar crashes a few times.

This all started mid last week.

We do thankfully get the option to save a restore scene.

We haven't updated anything recently so nothing like that would have caused it.

Has anyone had this before?

Thanks

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Cancelling distributed rendering on slaves

« on: 2023-10-31, 10:44:50 »

Thanks.

One of the main things I'm concerned about is if a slave is rendering and someone closes the slave, what it was rendering (within the sync interval) won't be transferred.

Will another system pick this up or will it create a dodgy area on the final render where that system was rendering?

In the case of VRs that go on headsets this'd cause issues with the images.  We haven't used DR for years and when we did (corona v5/v6) it'd create dodgy blocks on the render.

If another system doesn't pick this up then maybe it's best to keep the interval to it's default setting.

If it does, what would you suggest I up the sync interval to based on what I'm currently rendering?

Do you know if the sync interval is scene or system based?

Thanks again

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[Max] General Discussion / Cancelling distributed rendering on slaves

« on: 2023-10-31, 08:41:48 »

Hi all,

I have 11 systems rendering an image (10 slaves).

These can't render during the day as people need to use them.  I'm rendering 8192x8192 VR images (Top/Bottom).

I can't afford for these to mess up.

Is it safe for people to close these down without affecting the render.  Does it transfer the date it's rendered when shutting down?

If not, would it be a good idea to have a 'transfer and close' button on the slave DR Server?

Thanks