Using 3dsMax 2015 to render an animation sequence saved as tga’s to network mapped drives via deadline.
My issue is that I cannot save frames on the network drives. Basically I cannot save animation frames to a network drive at all. I can save this by locally rendering but not as a network render. Any ideas why this doesn’t work. I do not get any errors via deadline since it thinks it renders and saves. Writing out of Adobe encoder locally doesn’t work through the network mapped drives either. It will only work through UNC paths.
The folders are shared and appear to have permissions to do so. If I open the job and push render it works fine…
The fact that they aren’t throwing an error about a non-existant directory is pretty odd though… Media encoder less so since what we’re doing there isn’t even supported (or documented) by Adobe.
Just for fun, would you be able to send over a Max render log?
The slaves are not run as a service. The drives are mapped per job via repository.
I did some testing and I found I can only write .tga’s but not .exr’s for some reason. If I open the Max file with exr’s from the deadline aux folder and press render it saves the .exr’s just fine. I will keep working on it to figure it out but it is strange. Also note I am using Vray.
See attached for a log. It thinks it worked successfully so no errors.
EDIT: Success! after reading and testing I turned off use local render and it works now… any idea why local render does not work with exr’s. I presume something else is wrong since that really doesn’t make any sense.
Unfortunately, you “removed info” , so I can’t tell for sure as I don’t know what exact version of Deadline you are running, but I think you are hitting an issue, where “local rendering” didn’t until very recently support “V-Ray VFB” saving of files in combination with Concurrent Tasks > 1. If so, this is fixed in 8.0.10.4: docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ne-release
We are successfully rendering the V-Ray RAW file to this temp location, but then failing to locate the file to copy it back to your final output location:
I had another situation the other day, where a user was running a custom post-job script which was renaming and changing this RAW image file, and as a result, we were failing to locate it and copy it back to the file server.
Sorry paranoia kicked in here is the slightly less edited slave info:
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Slave Information
Slave Name: Computer-PC
Version: v8.0.4.1 Release (49ce3656c)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate (SP1)
Running As Service: No
Machine User: Computer
IP Address:
MAC Address:
CPU Architecture: x64
CPUs: 12
CPU Usage: 100%
Memory Usage: 16.8 GB / 63.9 GB (26%)
Free Disk Space: 6.599 TB (5.676 GB on C:, 685.084 GB on E:, 2.431 TB on I:, 1.544 TB on J:, 1.846 TB on L:, 96.151 GB on P:, 8.875 GB on S:)
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980[/code]
I will look into it further… it is probably on my end.
, so I can’t tell for sure as I don’t know what exact version of Deadline you are running, but I think you are hitting an issue, where “local rendering” didn’t until very recently support “V-Ray VFB” saving of files in combination with Concurrent Tasks > 1. If so, this is fixed in 8.0.10.4: