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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] Daily Builds => Topic started by: aaouviz on 2018-09-19, 05:26:20

Title: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: aaouviz on 2018-09-19, 05:26:20

Hi All,

I was previously using 45 day trial of Corona 2, until yesterday when I purchased FairSaaS and updated to daily build sep 14.

DR was working fine for me until the update. Now I can't get it to work. It keeps 'downloading scene' then 'starting', then 'parsing scene' then 'not working' and repeat. The error I get is " Cannot contact 3ds Max, trying again ..."

I have max/dr/corona logs available if that will help? I've done an uninstall / clean install and still no luck...

Any tips?

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: Frood on 2018-09-20, 15:50:25

Looks like your DR nodes need to activate the Corona license, see


https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000564325-activating-corona-renderer-for-3ds-max


Good Luck

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: aaouviz on 2018-09-21, 07:14:06

Nope, definitely activated...

Others are reporting problems too... https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=20851.255

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: Frood on 2018-09-21, 08:32:48

Quote from: aaouviz on 2018-09-21, 07:14:06

Nope, definitely activated...

Then yes, the logs would help.


Good Luck

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: Nekrobul on 2018-09-21, 09:56:43

Then you should report it here.

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?board=2.0

and if there is no stable workaround roll back to stable version - https://corona-renderer.com/download

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: maru on 2018-09-24, 11:58:41

Any DR issues in the newest daily? (20.09)

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: aaouviz on 2018-09-24, 16:30:22

Thanks for the follow-up.

Sadly, I've been a bit too busy with deadlines. Will hopefully give the new daily a test tomorrow...

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: aaouviz on 2018-09-26, 08:26:08

Didn't get a chance to test DR with the Sep 20 release.

This was due to another, bigger, issue I was experiencing: I made a scene on one PC (let's call it AA3) with daily build 14th Sep and set up a batch render with 3DS max. I transferred (via dropbox) this file to another PC (AA2, on the other side of the world) and when trying to do the batch render, 3DS max would crash immediately, every.single.time. No error report, nothing. As soon as I reverted back to Version 2 official release corona, the crashes stopped. This was particularly problematic with the deadline only hours away.

So, from these failed experiments, I don't think I'll be using daily builds any more.

Hopefully you're able to recreate both the DR bug and the Batch render crashes.

Let me know if I can help in any capacity...

Title: Re: Can't get DR working with daily build sep 14
Post by: Vlad_the_rant on 2018-09-28, 12:20:56

@aaouviz

If possible, please try rendering the scene manually and see if it crashes without the batch render being used.

If you can, it would be very useful if you could upload a scene with this problem to us since I can't reproduce it (never had any similar problems with any dailies or scenes). Thanks!