Author Topic: Corona Renderer 4 for 3ds Max - Daily Builds Discussion  (Read 109829 times)

2019-06-20, 13:43:14
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Well, there were no changes to DR in this release, so this one is unlikely to be a bug. More likely to be an installation or firewall issue. Here are the guides:
https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000002056-distributed-rendering-stopped-working-after-the-installation-of-newer-version

https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/folders/12000000629

Let us know if anything there resolves the issue, ty!
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2019-06-20, 14:01:21
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Anyone having any issues with DR? everything has worked perfectly up until the latest build and now it keeps parsing the scene in DR and then comes up red with connection failed? Both machines see each other but keeps timing out. Never had this before. Any ideas?

Hi, we had the same problem here today!  -.-

The only thing I did was a Corona render region and the DR Servers started doing the same thing as yours.
When I switched to the 3ds Max render region and launch the job again, the problem disappeared. Don't know if all this is related...

I took a look n 3ds Max log and this is what I have:

2019/06/20 12:43:30 INF: [16648] [07816] StartupTemplate factoryTemplateFolder: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2019\en-US\StartupTemplates
2019/06/20 12:43:30 INF: [16648] [07816] StartupTemplate userTemplateFolder: C:\Users\dtsagkaropoulos\Documents\3dsMax\startuptemplates
2019/06/20 12:43:30 INF: [16648] [07816] StartupTemplate appdataTemplateFolder: C:\Users\dtsagkaropoulos\AppData\Local\Autodesk\3dsMax\2019 - 64bit\ENU\en-US\StartupTemplates
2019/06/20 12:43:32 INF: [26596] [16932] Done loading file:  C:\Users\dtsagkaropoulos\AppData\Local\CoronaRenderer\DrData\received_scene_3845118646.max
2019/06/20 12:43:33 INF: [16648] [07816] ALC Security Tool 1.0 loaded.  (c:\program files\autodesk\3ds max 2019\applicationplugins\3dsmaxsecuritytools\contents\win64\scripts\ALC_SecurityTool.ms)
2019/06/20 12:43:33 INF: [16648] [07816] CRP Security Tool 1.0 loaded.  (c:\program files\autodesk\3ds max 2019\applicationplugins\3dsmaxsecuritytools\contents\win64\scripts\CRP_SecurityTool.ms)
2019/06/20 12:43:34 INF: [16648] [07816] ADSL Security Tool 1.0 loaded.  (c:\program files\autodesk\3ds max 2019\applicationplugins\3dsmaxsecuritytools\contents\win64\scripts\ADSL_SecurityTool.ms)
2019/06/20 12:43:42 WRN: [26596] [16932] MAXScript FileIn Exception: -- Runtime error: viewport.activeViewport index out of range
2019/06/20 12:43:42 ERR: [26596] [16932] Error executing script
2019/06/20 12:43:43 DBG: [16648] [07816] Interface8::LoadFromFile(D:\Dionysios\3D_Production\Benchmark_Scenes\Swiss_School\3D_Scenes\Interior_02.max)
2019/06/20 12:43:43 INF: [16648] [07816] Starting to load file: D:\Dionysios\3D_Production\Benchmark_Scenes\Swiss_School\3D_Scenes\Interior_02.max
2019/06/20 12:43:46 DBG: [26596] [16932] Stop network

Thanks,

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2019-06-20, 14:32:19
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Well, there were no changes to DR in this release, so this one is unlikely to be a bug. More likely to be an installation or firewall issue. Here are the guides:
https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/12000002056-distributed-rendering-stopped-working-after-the-installation-of-newer-version

https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/folders/12000000629

Let us know if anything there resolves the issue, ty!

Thanks, the only thing I have done since this morning is update from the final daily to the latest release so not sure what has happened. Will try uninstall everything and go from scratch, but before that will do the region render mod from the helpful comment above and hopefully see if that jump starts it.

2019-07-02, 12:31:43
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We've also been unable to use DR in 2018, while DR is installed in 2020.

Just to be clear - Corona 2 installed in 2018. Corona 4 installed in 2020. DR in 2020 works fine, but not in 2018.
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2019-07-02, 13:12:33
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We've also been unable to use DR in 2018, while DR is installed in 2020.

Just to be clear - Corona 2 installed in 2018. Corona 4 installed in 2020. DR in 2020 works fine, but not in 2018.

Are you talking about DR master or DR slave?

2019-07-02, 13:20:19
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We've also been unable to use DR in 2018, while DR is installed in 2020.

Just to be clear - Corona 2 installed in 2018. Corona 4 installed in 2020. DR in 2020 works fine, but not in 2018.

Are you talking about DR master or DR slave?

Both. That's the installation setup above. When you open a corona 2 scene in 2018 and try to DR it doesn't work. Same scene open in Corona 4 in 2020 DR will work fine. I think something's getting screwed up when you install Corona 4 and only check the 2020 box in the installer.
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2019-07-02, 14:14:16
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Hi Alex, I am afraid the discussion might get a bit messy here (e.g. if other users will start reporting other stuff), so is it ok for you if we move it to a dedicated thread? Or alternatively we can switch to email or support ticket, if you would prefer that.
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2019-07-02, 14:19:44
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Hi Alex, I am afraid the discussion might get a bit messy here (e.g. if other users will start reporting other stuff), so is it ok for you if we move it to a dedicated thread? Or alternatively we can switch to email or support ticket, if you would prefer that.

In all honesty we're moving over fully to 2020/C4 pretty much today, just been dealing with some older stuff we needed to squeeze through 2018/C2, so I'm not sure we'd be any help! Was just dropping in our experiences in case it helped at all.
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2019-07-02, 14:29:26
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Fully moving to Max 2020 and Corona 4 would be definitely the most reliable solution. :)

Otherwise, we could probably offer some workarounds. Generally, we do not advise using different versions of Max and Corona installed on the master and/or slaves at the same time. This can easily result in some conflicts (if there is just one DR server installed on the slave, it may be confused which version of Max and Corona it should use). So first of all, you should make sure that when you launch the DR server, it has the correct version of Max selected in the dropdown list, and that the version of the DR server is not older than the version of Corona used in the currently rendered project.

One option is having multiple DR servers installed on each node. One for each Corona+Max combo (but running just one at a time). But that can be really cumbersome on a larger farm.

Another option would be to use a list of  specific render nodes for each Corona/Max version.

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2019-07-04, 16:07:32
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Locking this as V4 dailies are no more released.
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