Max frame buffer being used when send through Backburner

[Ash.]

Couple of colleagues have some issues that sometimes the Max frame buffer is being used instead of the corona one, when files are send to our farm through backburner. It still does everything it needs to (denoise and save all the passes) but we have no visual feedback of noise threshold etc and can only see the beautypass in the regular frame buffer. I've told them to check system settings should be set to corona frame buffer. But are there any other cases this might happen?

[Ash.]

Nobody? Does the frame buffer setting have to be manually set for each node as well, or is this scene specific?

[TomG]

I think you'd have to run Max at least once on the node and change the system settings to use the Corona VFB (but, never done it myself, as I turn off any VFB displayed on the render nodes during rendering as for me it isn't needed).

[Ash.]

Ok thank you. I'll give it a shot. Would be nice I could change this in any INI file somewhere without having to open Max.

[Frood]

Try this:

https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=22430.0


Good Luck

[Ash.]

Right, haha weird I didn't find the forum thread earlier. In the mean time I did find this parameter and will check if the rendernodes are set to native. Thank you.

[Ash.]

Well no idea but both the conf files that I found were already set to the wx parameter.

[Frood]

Are you really sure that you are looking at the appropriate userprofile? The one of the user running server.exe? I just tried it and I can switch the VFB type just by changing the SystemSettings file in the userprofile of the user we use to run BB server(svc).exe as expected.


Good Luck