3DS Max V-Ray Tile Rendering

[Max]

Hi all,

It’s been a while since I’ve done any tile rendering but through the deadline submitter in 3DS Max I’ve enabled “SINGLE FRAME TILE Rendering” and submitted it to the render farm.

I’ve set the save directory through the V-Ray framebuffer.

The job renders on the farm but none of the tiles appear to be saving in the directory, so the tile assembly naturally fails because it can’t find anything. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Max

3DS Max 2017 / Windows 10 / V-Ray 3.6.04 / Deadline 10.0

[Max]

Looks like there’s no support for saving multichannel exr’s as it works when saving through the max output?

Here’s a thread from 2010 with a request for this feature, I guess it’s too difficult to implement then?

3dsMax-Tile Rendering VRay Frame Buffer

Hi, Please could we add support for the 3dsmax Tile Assembler to support tile renders being saved from the VRay frame buffer AS WELL as continue to support the 3dsMax render output standard route. Essentially, the VRay frame buffer is the only thing that supports the VRay Render Elements all being saved into 1 multi-channel EXR file, but it isn’t presently supported by the tile assembler. On the flip side, the tile assembler works fine in std 3dsMax render output, but this way doesn’t support …

[eamsler]

Funny thing, @mikeowen works with us these days and he may have just implemented it while I wasn’t looking. I think the V-Ray framebuffer goes around our frame saving code in Lightening and your lack of output frames might be a configuration issue…

Fun thing from an internal ticket here back in April 2018:

After much frustration I deleted my user profile and created a new one. After that everything works as expected and all the Render Elements were saved. I have no idea what the problem was but it was definitely not the SMTD. Maybe some old settings/INI Files/scripts/plugins or what else…

[Max]

Haha, thanks @eamsler - I will try that when we get some downtime.

Max

[eamsler]

Sounds good. To be fair, I think the user pref deletion would have just reset the SMTD settings, so to save you some sanity (sorry I hadn’t considered this last week) just move the “3dsmax” themed files from “C:\Users[username]\AppData\Local\Thinkbox\Deadline10\settings” somewhere else.