Does anyone know if Corona DR in latest Daily still downloads textures even if they are perfectly mapped ?
(Or maybe I don't understand this feature correctly... is "downloading textures" simply loading them in Max, or is this asset collection to local disc on node ?)
the workflow should be: slave downloads scene, checks if all textures are present, and downloads only specifically those that are missing. If it is downloading more than it should, then:
1) either slaves do not see textures, either because of user error (network drive not available, ...), or because of bug in corona - the scene would render with gray mtls if textures were not downloaded
2) or slaves download unnecessary textures - this is possible if you for example have some non-shared textures on invisible objects, or they are somehow stuck in 3dsmax (IIRC it can be difficult to get 3dsmax rid of missing files warnings).
Can you confirm this is the #1 case - that the textures downloaded are properly visible from slaves, and necessary for rendering?