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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: No._12 on 2015-02-26, 07:36:56
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Hello,
I´ve been really excited to see the 1.0 release yesterday and immidiately wanted to see how it performs on our litte renderfarm. The Problem is that the 3dsmax version on the slaves is an expired trial so I wont be able to use the GUI to activate the Demo license fot DR rendering ;( Is there any other way to do this? I can't impress the guys at work with Coronas speed if it's not rendering using all the available power!
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Yesterday i installed 1.0 on my workstation which went fine.
But then when installing 1.0 on my renderslave, the installation software kept telling me that there was an instance open of 3dsmax and he couldn't instal it.
I checked everything and 3dsmax wasn't running.
Any suggestions how to solve it?
Thanks
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Same problem here. Server log says something about creating a text file, but not about 45 days demo activition.
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Hi,
I added the steps to activate demo with headless 3ds Max here: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/5000564325-activating-license - the steps are identical to activating full license without internet access. Let me know if that helps.
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Thank you, now works as expected!
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Hi,
I added the steps to activate demo with headless 3ds Max here: https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/solution/articles/5000564325-activating-license - the steps are identical to activating full license without internet access. Let me know if that helps.
Hi ,
can I Install Corona with method : “activate demo with headless 3ds Max „ on EC2 Instance ? Is Corona Activation Key locks on Hardware ?
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it is hardware-specific
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hello keymaster,
I still haven't got an solution to my problem.
Can you help me please?
Kind regards.
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Are you refering to this post?
Yesterday i installed 1.0 on my workstation which went fine.
But then when installing 1.0 on my renderslave, the installation software kept telling me that there was an instance open of 3dsmax and he couldn't instal it.
I checked everything and 3dsmax wasn't running.
Have you tried using "just unpack option" in the installer and then copying files manually? It will unpack all plugin files to a specified folder and from there, you can copy them to your max directory.
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yes
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i will try unpack option thanks
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i tried with unpack funtion, the intallation program doesn't say where the files are stored, and with a windows search i didn't find them either (except in the max directory)
also when rendering, my DRserver gave met this error:
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here you can set where to unpack files
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when i want to put the files in the max directory win7 says i don't have permission.
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Does your account have administrator rights?
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when i want to put the files in the max directory win7 says i don't have permission.
That is weird, there might be some issue such as improperly configured access rights - the installer is always run as administrator. Try unpacking in a different folder and then copying the files manually.
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Hello,
Same problem for me on my workstation. Admin rights are OK with UAC off. When i install corona it says that 3dsmax is running.
If i try to unpack and past files, same thing, 3dsmax is running so can't proceed...
I have 3dsmax2014design, win7 64bit.
Can someone help me :/ ?
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Krimson, do you find any solutions?
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It is possible some 3dsmax is still stuck and running, or that you have 3dsmax started by for example vray spawner.
You can press WinKey+R, type in taskkill /T /F /IM 3dsmax.exe and press enter. This will kill all 3dsmax processes running at your computer. But note that this might kill any rendering jobs that might be running on the PC, as well as close all opened scenes without saving, so use it at your own risk
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Thx keymaster, i'll try this when i come back home. Juste one question: where must i write this sentence? Windows? 3dsmax?
Hope that it works!
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press Windows key + R, you will see
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it is not working... something else maybe?
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hm... make sure you run the installer as an administrator
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yes it does
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windows key r doesnt work
still a 3dsmax instance running
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windows key r doesnt work
still a 3dsmax instance running
Same for me... even with administrator rights...
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in that case you have probably some other application running that keeps creating the 3dsmax process, possibly vray spawner. You can also try selecting "Just unpack" in the installer, specifying a folder, and then copying over files manually. YOu can maybe do this in the Windows Safe mode if you still get errors.
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thx keymaster,
It works when you run install with safe mode (F8 during the windows start up).
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Article for future generations:
https://coronarenderer.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/5000570033
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hello,
installing in windows in safe mode works indeed.
The only problem is that i have another problem now: loopback connection.
See printscreen attached.
Can someone help me out?
Kind regards.
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Hi, there was a similar issue in the support, it was caused by having 3ds Max 2015 SP1 on some nodes and 3ds Max 2015 SP2 on other. Installing SP2 on everything seemed to have solved the problem. Maybe you have similar issue? Different versions of 3ds or some other software (OS?)?
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hi,
open file drdata/maxlog.txt - there will be some kind of error displayed