Max 2009 mentalray defualt lights = black

Deadline
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Hi there,

Quick one here. I’ve been rendering out some masks with Mental Ray, but have not included any lights in the scene.
When I render through MAX it renders fine, but through deadline its completely balck. I discovered that it’s something to do with default lights, when I put a light in the scene it works.
Default lighting is somehow turned off when it gets sent to Deadline. Can I turn this on?

Thanks.

Chris

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Can you post a simple test scene that reproduces the problem?

Thanks!

  • Ryan
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Ah I’ve figured it out. D’oh!

I got the file from someone else and Batch Rendering was enabled with different states. I deleted them all and now it’s fine.

Never had the inclination to use Batch rendering before!

Sorry about all that!