Deadline Submission and save output issue

[Sollo]

Dear Coronauts,

Does anyone have experience of using Corona with Deadline? We are implementing Deadline as our primary network rendering manager and having issues with Corona jobs have been submitted from 3ds Max to network rendering:

When it's rendering on the farm we can see that Corona Frame Buffer rendering image fine, but when render completed, the render output saved a completely black image only for Beauty pass, and completely ignores any render elements.
We are setting render output as a 32bit Open EXR under Render Output group in Common render settings and adding few corona render passes under Render Elements tab.

We have 3ds Max 2016, Corona 1.6 and Deadline 9.0.1.1


Would really appreciate any help on how to setup deadline submission for 3ds Max + Corona

Thanks

[Lucutus]

we had a similar issue some time ago.

It was related withmultichannel EXR´s when saved as 16bit integer. Here it was solved by using 32 bit full float EXR´s.

Greetz

Lucutus

[Sollo]

Thank you Lucutus!

We are using full float 32bit EXR for saving render output, but it's not helping. We also tried to save in TIFF but it saved the same completely black output and no render passes.

[Lucutus]

Do u use Multichannel EXRs or do u try to save every Renderpass seperate?

And maybe u can try to update your deadline. we are using 9.0.2.0

[Sollo]

We're trying to save each render pass separately. So no multichannel EXRs.

When image is rendering on render node it shows 2 frame buffers - Corona VFB and default 3ds Max VFB. The rendering is going on in Corona VFB but Max VFB stays black. So I'm guessing that for some reason when render is finished it saves output from Max VFB (black image without any passes) instead of Corona VFB.

Is there any setting in Deadline submission or Corona render settings which controls from which VFB it should save the output at the end of the render?

[Lucutus]

in the deadline submission panel in the 3ds max rendering dropdown menu there are some ptions with checkboxes u could check.

[Lucutus]

Have u been able to solve the issue?

[Sollo]

Have u been able to solve the issue?

Unfortunately no. I tried every checkbox in the 3ds max rendering settings, but it didn't help. I think of trying to update to the latest deadline version. Hope it might help.

 Lucutus, do you use any settings in the Deadline submitter specific to Corona, or just stick to default setup?

[Lucutus]

As far as i know we dont use any corona specific settings. we use mostly default settings. But there are so many options in deadline so its hard to tell.

What does the task log file say about the render elements? It would be good to know if they are not rendered at all or if they are just not saved.

To me it sounds like a saving or file handling issue. in this case the Elements should be rendered but not saved.