3dsmax Render Elements Warning

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3dsMax2008 with vray 1.5sp2. Rendering with VrayVFB enabled and “Split seperate render channels” is enabled to allow saving of the render element “VRay_SelfIllumination”.



“Render History Settings” dialog pops up on both slaves with the error message :-



“The path “” not found do you want to create it?”



The slave tries to say no or cancel but the dialog keeps on popping up.



The jobs are rendering but I assume there’s a performance hit with a dialog constantly popping up during render.



Is this a know bug? or is there a setting I need to adjust to get render elements working?

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Hi Patrick,



Can you post a simple test scene that reproduces this problem? Just some

geometry and a camera will be fine, and preferably no external

references (textures, etc). We can then try tweaking some settings to

see if we can prevent that dialog from popping up.



Thanks!

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Hi Ryan,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Please find enclosed a clean scene file that exhibits the same problem.



Regards,

Patrick.



On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Frantic_Deadline Listmanager <

Frantic_Deadline.listmanager@support.franticfilms.com> wrote:


From: “Ryan Russell” (rrussell@franticfilms.com)



Hi Patrick,



Can you post a simple test scene that reproduces this problem? Just some

geometry and a camera will be fine, and preferably no external

references (textures, etc). We can then try tweaking some settings to

see if we can prevent that dialog from popping up.



Thanks!

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Hi Patrick,



Thanks for the scene. I tested it out on our farm and I couldn’t

reproduce the problem. We ran the test with max 2008 and vray 1.5 sp1

(instead of sp2), and I didn’t change any of the setting in the scene

file. I wonder if perhaps it’s a configuration with the vray plugin

itself that causes the render history settings dialog to pop up, or if

something changed between vray 1.5 sp1 and sp2.



Cheers,

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Hi Ryan,

Thanks for checking it out.

I’ll post a query on the chaosgroup forums to see if this is a known issue.



I would be surprised if it was a problem introduced in sp2, but that is a

possibility.



The render history is a ‘hidden’ feature of vray that’s been around for

quite a while now. To enable it you need to change a Environment Variable.

I’m pretty sure the machine I’m running the render from has not had the

environment variable enabled, so I’m surprised that the render history

feature is causing a problem.



I’ll keep you posted with any feedback I get.



Thanks again,

Patrick.



On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Frantic_Deadline Listmanager <

Frantic_Deadline.listmanager@support.franticfilms.com> wrote:


From: “Ryan Russell” (rrussell@franticfilms.com)



Hi Patrick,



Thanks for the scene. I tested it out on our farm and I couldn’t

reproduce the problem. We ran the test with max 2008 and vray 1.5 sp1

(instead of sp2), and I didn’t change any of the setting in the scene

file. I wonder if perhaps it’s a configuration with the vray plugin

itself that causes the render history settings dialog to pop up, or if

something changed between vray 1.5 sp1 and sp2.



Cheers,