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Hardware / Re: Networking issue

« on: Today at 08:35:06 »

All workstations and NAS devices are connected directly to Cisco switches via Ethernet cables. Is there a better way to do it?

so each NAS is connected via one 1Gbps Ethernet cable to the switch?

That is correct!

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue

« on: Today at 08:34:43 »

That is correct!

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Hardware / Re: Networking issue

« on: Yesterday at 19:16:25 »

All workstations and NAS devices are connected directly to Cisco switches via Ethernet cables. Is there a better way to do it?

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Hardware / Networking issue

« on: Yesterday at 10:36:34 »

Hi, we've been experiencing numerous issues with 3ds Max and Corona lately. We feel our network setup needs an urgent upgrade.

Below are the specifications and configuration of our network setup, along with a simple diagram.

We have approximately 40 workstations of varying specifications, all connected via 1Gbps Ethernet cables and two fully managed Cisco switches. Our data is stored in three NAS devices, each with 80TB of storage.

Huge exterior scenes with multiple proxies, etc., take forever to load, and are often accompanied by numerous crashes. DR also does not work correctly. Do you think we should upgrade it to 10 Gbps, or do you have any other suggestions?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

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Hardware / Re: Threadripper Builds

« on: 2020-02-28, 15:23:29 »

Ive mentioned a few times but had no takers. If someone wants to post a current recommended spec for a threadripper workstation. I will add it to the first post in this thread.
Theres a huge amount of info in these 66 pages and it would be useful to have a guide for those people coming here for information.

Excellent idea. Please post recommended configuration for 3990X. Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / GPU recommendation for Corona 3

« on: 2018-12-10, 19:17:11 »

Hi,
I am planning to buy a new GPU for my workstation. Can somebody suggest which GPU gives good results with Corona A.I denoiser ? My budget is fairly moderate ))

So far i am considering GTX 1060 6GB buying. Any recommendations would be appreciated!

Thanks!

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[Max] I need help! / Re: DR Render Elements

« on: 2017-11-10, 22:14:47 »

Any update? Facing this issue a lot. Render passes are empty when i open them in Photoshop

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Render very high res images with Corona 1.5

« on: 2017-01-23, 10:23:24 »

Rendering in tiles with Deadline or in stripes with Backburner should be an easy and fast solution. That's at least what worked the best for us while keeping the same quality level.

Thanks, I think that's the only possible way to render high res images as of now.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Render very high res images with Corona 1.5

« on: 2017-01-20, 20:57:14 »

Thanks Maru. We dont have any displacement in our scene. We do have lots of coronaproxies. This article is for vray and works like a charm but can we implement for corona as well ?

https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/VRAY3MAX/Rendering+Very+Large+Images


Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Render very high res images with Corona 1.5

« on: 2017-01-20, 17:35:00 »

Hi,

We are typically asked to deliver high res images above 5K for example. And we always face memory issues with corona when we try to jack up resolution more than 5 or 6K. Is there any trick  available where we can define corona VFB to show 1/2 or 1/4 during rendering and we can later save it as an EXR with actual resolution of the image ? Or some other way around ?

Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona DR issue

« on: 2016-12-10, 20:43:28 »

EDIT: It seems DR is very unpredictable with Corona. Sometimes it works sometimes it just stops. For some strange reason, DR is working perfectly when i re-save my scenes with MAX 2015.
DR is an essential part of our workflow as we work with big resolution images. Any help would be appreciated! thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Corona DR issue

« on: 2016-12-07, 19:47:14 »

hi, Sorry for the late reply. I didn't change any router settings. I even checked with corona 1.5 hotfix1 and the problem still persist. Sending you my DR logs.
Thanks

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[Max] I need help! / Corona DR issue

« on: 2016-11-30, 21:20:10 »

Hi,
DR was working like breeze before but today when i tried to use it, its not working anymore. Please see my screenshot. When i add this server, I get the message in cmd window "Starting 3ds max DR" but nothing happens afterwards. Window gets stuck there without any errors. As you can see CPU usage doesn't go above than 3%. Even RAM usage get stuck at 3.81GB.
And when i click cancel on my main machine, i still see the same message on cmd window "Starting 3ds max DR". I have to close Corona Drserver forcefully using task manager.

Steps i've done-
Tried to remove everything and reinstalled it, removed coronaRenderer folder from Appdata/Local.
After all these tries, its still not working. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Dark bands in the render using Distributed rendering

« on: 2016-04-29, 19:21:43 »

I've tried merging the entire scene in a new file. DR works somehow but I still get WxWidget Debug alert error. Any update on this ?
Thanks.

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[Max] I need help! / Re: Dark bands in the render using Distributed rendering

« on: 2016-04-28, 11:55:41 »

3ds max - 2016, Corona 1.3 and yes i am using additional plugins such as Complex Fresnel, MultiTexturem SigerNoise etc. They all are copied to other machines which i am using for DR,