Krakatoa & Backburner

[JohnnyRandom]

I am doing a local batch render using backburner (curse me maybe it is because I am not using deadline) and I am getting the dreaded “No such feature exists” error message from the Monitor.

I do have a commercial license, although it is node-locked, but since I am on a local machine it should still work right?

because as far as I know i have:
“The regular Krakatoa version ships with one workstation and two network licenses,”

Since I have never tried to render a batch via backburner I have no idea if my two render licenses actually exist.

ALSO maybe it is just becasue is is 3:30 in the morning and I am going crazy but when I have two instance of max open, 1 rendering a Krakatoa sequence, and another test rendering frames getting ready to render I don’t seem to be getting any frame buffer back, Krakatoa goes through all the motions but never returns a VFB? Is this license related too?

[Bobo]

A node-locked license does not provide network rendering licenses. The standard bundle of Krakatoa that ships with one workstation and two network licenses requires a floating license served by FlexLM. For example, I have a node-locked license at home and can only run Krakatoa in workstation mode on that particular machine and nothing else. So even with Deadline, the only way to render would be in Workstation Mode (Deadline has an option that fires up Max with the UI and everything and pulls a workstation license for both Max and Krakatoa). So assuming you have a node-locked license, it would explain why network rendering might not be working.

I don’t know about the other question, it should be possible to run any number of Max copies on the same machine and use as many Krakatoa instances as needed.

[JohnnyRandom]

Rebooted, the Instance issue is gone.