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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Deadline 10.1.17.4 3ds max SMTD jobs failing - anyone else?

« on: 2021-11-24, 15:20:01 »

We moved over to Pulze as there was no official support for Corona 7 even after a year of being released.
I asked numerous times for help on the forums with no reply.
I saw a change with customer service once they where bought by Amazon. There seemed to be more interest in pushing amazon cloud rendering than anything else.

Pulze was a bit touch and go at the beginning of this year as they where still ironing stuff out, but now we are super happy and have been for months.
They are also very responsive and hands on with customers.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Image Editor 7 - Slow responsiveness

« on: 2021-07-29, 16:23:08 »

Thanks.
Will give you work around a try.

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[Max] I need help! / Corona Image Editor 7 - Slow responsiveness

« on: 2021-07-29, 08:07:35 »

Hi,

We have notice the new version of Corona Image editor is a lot more laggy and lacks the responsiveness the previous version had.
Even with Denoise, Sharpen & Bloom off.
The light mix is only 6 layers.

It's a real step back from previous version worked great.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Bitmaps Slow File opening times

« on: 2021-06-28, 16:28:45 »

Hi Nicolas,

I only briefly tested it last week.
Tried installing 7 on one machine and sent job to manager but gave time out error when I started in on just that machine.
Will try a very simple scene tomorrow.

But it's good to know it seems to be supported.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona Bitmaps Slow File opening times

« on: 2021-06-28, 15:52:16 »

Hi Maru & GeorgeK,

Thanks for replies.
I tried install 7 and it definitely improved the speed of opening the files.
I'm awaiting feedback from Pulze regarding support for Corona 7.
But at least I know that Corona 7 has improve the file opening time.
Thanks guys.

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[Max] I need help! / Corona Bitmaps Slow File opening times

« on: 2021-06-23, 12:16:33 »

We recently started using Corona Bitmaps exclusive but have notice a considerable slow down in file opening times.
Even basic scenes seem to take 5-7min and more complex can take up to 20min.
There are no x-refs which I know can slow everything down.

We tried the following:

- Removed Forest Pack
- Removed Rail Clone
- Removed all plugins (except corona)

All the above made very little change. Once we removed the corona plugin it opened in 20sec - 1min.
This obviously removed loading of bitmaps.
We then tried changing all the corona bitmaps back to max standard bitmap loader.
This helped decrease file opening times by 20-30%.
I read on the forum that having the viewport textures setting too high can also cause slow open time so I reduced this. (Corona Bitmap load is not affected by this)

It's not our network as I have tried opening everything off the local drive (NMVe SSD) and still same opening time.

Is anyone else having these issues?
Is there anything we can do to help solve this?

Look forward to any and all responses.
Thx.
Dankie.

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[Max] General Discussion / Re: Corona DR Dialog Popup

« on: 2020-01-29, 10:42:20 »

Now... I wonder if Thinkbox deadline will allow it to be run as a service?
Should be.

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[Max] General Discussion / Corona DR Dialog Popup

« on: 2020-01-29, 09:46:26 »

Is there a way to not have the Corona DR popup on the slaves when rendering?
Almost in a hidden mode. If that makes sense.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona DR to Deadline + Lightmix (Corona 3)

« on: 2019-07-05, 10:03:36 »

So tried reducing the "Max pixels to transfer at once" to 1000000
And tried running the Drserver manually this seems to help.

Could this be a network throughput problem?

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona DR to Deadline + Lightmix (Corona 3)

« on: 2019-07-05, 08:40:21 »

I'm getting the following errors on the slaves.

C:/Users/Visoo/AppData/Local/CoronaRenderer/DrData/dump1642.exr
2019-07-05 08:38:17   Sending file to remote side failed
2019-07-05 08:38:17   Sending file to remote side failed
2019-07-05 08:38:17   Sending file to remote side failed
2019-07-05 08:38:17   Sending file to remote side failed
2019-07-05 08:39:30   Started EXR dump (1 174 M bytes, filename: C:/Users/Visoo/AppData/Local/CoronaRenderer/DrData/dump1652.exr)

Seems to send some and then not.
I'm going to try rendering on the slaves with out Deadline.

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona DR to Deadline + Lightmix (Corona 3)

« on: 2019-07-05, 08:29:32 »

And now we have the problem again with Corona 4 and Deadline 10.0.27.2.
Sigh...

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona DR to Deadline + Lightmix (Corona 3)

« on: 2019-07-03, 16:14:02 »

We had many problems with Corona 3 and deadline.
After installing version 4 the problems have disappeared.
Also installed latest version of Deadline.

We installed Corona 4 and made sure each render node could render with manual DR Server.
Also completed removed deadline & corona before installing update.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: Corona DR using all of disk space

« on: 2019-05-13, 14:04:30 »

Having the same issue. Posted about it a few days ago.

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[Max] Bug Reporting / DrData Folder not clearing after Max size reached

« on: 2019-05-04, 14:06:15 »

The image data folder keeps getting larger and larger. (\AppData\Local\CoronaRenderer\DrData)
Shouldn't it clear the folder after the Max directory size is reached (ie 10 gb)?
Will it only clear after each render is finished? Or will this happen during rendering.

The problem I'm now having is each render node is starting to run out of HDD space.
This didn't seem to be an issue on Corona 2.

We are currently using:
Corona 3 Hotfix 2 with Deadline.
3dsmax 2018
Windows 10

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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Re: Corona DR to Deadline + Lightmix (Corona 3)

« on: 2018-12-17, 13:13:43 »

Thx Maru.

Just a quick update.
We rolled back to Corona 2 as we just couldn't go forward with Corona 3.
Back on Corona 2 and everything is working fine with Deadline.

We have some issues with scenes going back to corona 2 but once we merge into a new scene no issues.