Environment Map - Out of Sequence on Farm?

Deadline
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Hi,

We setup an image sequence in the Environment Map (using a .jpg IFL, set to Screen mode)

time ranges are all setup and it renders great locally…

when the job goes to the farm the slaves appear to be rendering the FIRST frame of the IFL on their first render, regardless of what frame they’re on…

then on the next frame they render they pick the correct, current frame number…

the result is the renders have really bad jumping as the background image is popping to the first IFL frame all the time…

I’d test against BackBurner but we’ll have to get that setup…

anyone seen this? any fix?

thanks,
Joe

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Is it possible for you to package up a very simple test case that reproduces this problem and post it? If we can reproduce this here, that would be a good start.

Have you tried enabling Workstation Mode to see if you get the same results? Of course this isn’t ideal because Workstation mode uses up a max license, but it would be interesting to know if the problem still persists (Max has been known to behave differently sometimes when in slave mode, which is the mode that Deadline runs max in).

Cheers,

  • Ryan