Rendering incorrect view, bug?

Deadline
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This is a strange one.

I’ve bumped into a render job that kept on rendering from an incorrect view! I only have one camera in the scene, the main one, of course, but it still rendered from one of the perspective ones! I further investigated what it could have been and I found out that I had, on my local machine, a specific view locked in the VFB, so no matter what viewport I work in, it always renders from the camera. The locked view was, of course, the camera. But as soon as I submitted the file to Deadline, it kept rendering from a wrong Perspective view.

Have you experienced this behavior?

I’m on Max 2010 x64, incl. all the render slaves. Latest Deadline. All windows, incl. Servers.

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This FAQ item explains why this problem occurs:
software.primefocusworld.com/sof … t_viewport.

So in short, avoid using the Locked Viewport feature. :slight_smile:

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thank you! :slight_smile:

Yes, I’ve been avoiding it until now, when I simply “forgot” to uncheck the locked views as I was working on the scenes.

Thanks again, best…

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you could write a quick max private sanity check to check for this padlock before submitting your max files and therefore safeguard you against submitting a wrongly set file?