DBR popup disable on slave

[nuliajuk]

Hi guys, great new release, I'm working now using DBR and it works pretty well for me, anyone has idea how to disable pop-up window (cmd + rendering progress) on slave machine. Is there any way to turn it on in "silent" mode in background?

[xt13r]

only if keymaster (re)write code to make DR run in "silent" mode)
Hope, it will be done, i've already wrote here about this thing)

[Ondra]

I already have this planned (optional "silent" mode with no popups), but I didnt have time to include it into A6

[nuliajuk]

Great, thank You very much ;)

[xt13r]

Good news, Keymaster! Thank you!

[Daniel Döring]

Hello,

I know it's an old topic, but is there a silent instal method now? Nothing in the instructions.


Thanks in advance

[Frood]

This is another reason (for me) to run DrServer as windows service. Just like satellite server/backburner server/vray spawner and so on. See https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,7272.0.html

This way you can even use workstations with interactive users for DR in the background. Assumed they don´t need all their CPU power and memory, they wouldn´t even notice ;) (In case of mr satellite one should change the spawning script to run the rendering task with idle priority though)

[Daniel Döring]

Good point. But still, how to handle 40 renderblades without silent install?
Install new versions on all maschines one by one?

I'm not the IT pro...

[Frood]

Hi Daniel,

write a update script? Your 40 nodes should have identical configuration I presume. The script should act like a manual install (copy files) and with drserver running as service you can stop it remotely using "sc" command, copy over the new/changed files and restart it (maybe clean the drdata directory meanwhile). Corona itself should be easy to update/install as long as no max instance is running. Use the "just unpack" option of the installer and copy over the files from the apropriate "3ds max [version_here]" directory. But I would recommend to install every major Corona version on all blades in the first place because I don´t know exactly e.g. what registry settings are done by the installer.

Hmmm another topic for the Goodies section...

Good luck!

[Ondra]

no necessary registry entries are made. Running "just unpack" and then copying files from one of the directories directly to the node is guaranteed to work