Bug: VRay DBR with VRay 3.6 and Maya

Deadline
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Hi,
VRay 3.6 for Maya was just released and after upgrading I noticed one bug when trying to submit a VRay DBR job from within Maya. The Deadline script does correctly reserve servers on the farm but the list of servers in “Render settings” -> “Settings” -> “Distributed rendering” -> “Settings…” is not populated with the reserved servers. No error message is given.

Maya 2017 Update 4
VRay 3.60.0.1
Deadline 9.0.6.1
Windows 10

Cheers, Florian

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I also asked in the VRay forum if something changed in 3.6 regarding distributed rendering. You can find the thread here: forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-r … ine-broken

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I’m guessing they may have moved the configuration file. I’ll see about digging up my old CG forum credentials.

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Hi,
just checking in to hear if this has been fixed.
The Chaosgroup Support told me that they will inform you of the changes made to the config file.

https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/v-ray-for-maya-forums/v-ray-for-maya-problems/967485-distributed-rendering-with-deadline-broken

Cheers, Florian

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Just checked in the latest Deadline 10 release. Still doen’t work. :cry:

Vray 3.5 uses three files for setting up distributed rendering: server_list.tmp, server_ports.tmp and server_status.tmp
Vray 3.6 uses one XML file called vray_dr_list.xml
The format looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <hostlist> <serversLimit>0</serversLimit> <server> <host>render13</host> <port>20207</port> <alias /> <enabled>1</enabled> </server> <server> <host>render14</host> <port>20207</port> <alias /> <enabled>1</enabled> </server> </hostlist>

Maybe this helps.

Cheers, Florian

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It does! We’ll circle back with the dev team on this as it should be affecting everyone using V-Ray 3.6.