DR Not working on a specific scene

[Max Knol]

Hello, we are trying to render a production scene using DR
We have used DR succesfully in the past but for some reason we can not get it to work on this scene.
I have taken a look at the logs and realized very quickly I an not tech savvy enough to see what is what and what is causing the issue.

We have tried the following:
Removed all the Anima4d assets from the scene (I saw an error in the console about anima and thought this might fix it. it fixed the error but the same issue was still present.
Rendering a still instead of an animation
Using pathtracing as seccondary solver instead of 4k cache

We have tried using the same DR rendering setup with different scenes and that worked perfectly. So it has to be something with this particular scene for sure. Probably something with a license, or an object thats corrupt in some way..
We've already pushed the deadline back for this project so there is not much time pressure luckily.

Thanks in advance

~ Max from Virtual Builders

[maru]

Hi Max,

I was able to find the following issues in max.log:

2022/09/01 10:51:45 ERR: [09536] [14652] Render Error (Render Frame)
2022/09/01 10:51:45 DBG: [09536] [14652] Interface8::LoadFromFile(C:\Users\Raphael\AppData\Local\CoronaRenderer\DrData\received_scene_2596085192.max)
2022/09/01 10:51:45 INF: [09536] [14652] Starting to load file: C:\Users\Raphael\AppData\Local\CoronaRenderer\DrData\received_scene_2596085192.max
2022/09/01 10:51:55 WRN: [09536] [14652] Missing dll: vrender2023.dlr - VRayMtl
2022/09/01 10:51:55 WRN: [09536] [14652] Missing dll: vrender2023.dlr - VRayDisplacementMod
2022/09/01 10:51:55 WRN: [09536] [14652] Missing dll: vrayblendmtl2023.dlt - VRayBlendMtl
2022/09/01 10:51:55 WRN: [09536] [14652] Missing dll: mrmaterialattribs.gup - mental ray: material custom attribute
2022/09/01 10:51:55 WRN: [09536] [14652] Missing dll: mrmaterialattribs.gup - mental ray: Displacement Custom Attributes
2022/09/01 10:52:02 WRN: [09536] [14652] This scene contains a Chamfer modifier from a later version of 3ds Max, which may require features not supported in this version. Loaded Chamfer version: 600; current Chamfer version: 505.

^Solutions:
- Please make sure you have the same version of V-Ray installed on all computers taking part in DR.
- Please make sure you have the same version of the Chamfer modifier on all computers. I think this is a native 3ds Max modifier so it could mean that you have different versions of 3ds Max on different computers, so...
- Please make sure that you have the same versions (including patches/hotfixes) of 3ds Max installed on all computers. The easiest way to update may be through the Autodesk Desktop App.

2022/09/01 11:00:31 DBG: [21692] [26900] Could not find the specified file in DefaultSettingsParser::parse()

^Not sure about this one. Maybe it is a result of the missing plugins? You can try some troubleshooting steps from https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/3ds-max-forum/max-2015-backburner-error-quot-defaultsettingsparser-parse-quot/td-p/5193297

2022/09/01 10:58:20 WRN: [25136] [21512] Failed to load script: C:\Users\Raphael\AppData\Local\CoronaRenderer\DrData\post.ms
2022/09/01 10:58:20 INF: [25136] [21512] Error executing pre/post render script: MAXScript -- Unable to convert: undefined to type: Integer
2022/09/01 10:58:20 ERR: [25136] [21512] Error executing script

^You can try removing the file C:\Users\Raphael\AppData\Local\CoronaRenderer\DrData\post.ms from the node and then reinstalling Corona, but this one may be also related to the missing plugins issue.

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