I’ve been submitting jobs recently using 3ds max and RPManager to Deadline 3.1. Occasionally, and frustratingly with my current scene, when I submit, deadline errors and gives the following error:
ERR: [V-Ray] [VFBCore::SetRegion] Error writing render region to raw image file. [ExrFile:] Error creating OpenExr file
I know for certain I am rendering full view and not region, and also my Vray frame buffer is definitely not set to region.
When I render locally, it renders the full view, as it should.
Has anyone else had this problem or could shed light and what might be causing it?
Not sure about this one. Is it possible that vray isn’t performing an actual region render, but is instead trying to save a particular region of the full image that it just finished rendering? I don’t know enough of the inner workings of vray to say for sure that’s the case though.
What’s interesting is that the error says “Error creating OpenExr file”. So here are a couple of things to check:
- Does the error occur on one or two machines, or does it happen randomly on all machines? You can check which slave(s) are reporting this error in the error report viewer in the monitor. Maybe it’s one or two bad apples in the farm that are causing the problem.
- Do you have the Enable Local Rendering option enabled under the Options tab in the 3dsmax submitter? If not, try enabling this and submit again. With this option enabled, 3dmax will write the frame to a local temp location, and Deadline will move it to the final location after rendering finishes. It could be that the error you’re getting is due to a network hiccup that causes the output location to no longer be visible, and enabling local rendering should help reduce the probability of that being a problem again.
- Maybe try submitting without RPManager to see if you have the same problem. This would help determine if RPM is playing a role in this issue or not.
Cheers,