vray full screen camera viewport renders top view

Deadline
1

When submitting a job and having the camera viewport full screen (as only VP visible of 4) deadline then renders the job from the top viewport (quad 1 instead quad 4) eventhought the view to render is locked on Quad 4.

Is there any reason for this? or is it a bug (It’s been around for a long time actually, but i kinda never bothered to tell… sorry)
The simple solution zoom out and have all quads visible before submitting the job

2

Out of curiosity, does it work right if the LOCK is disengaged?

3

aah interesting indeed, when the VP-selection is unlocked in the render dialogue this doesn’t happen and all renders fine.

4

I was able to reproduce the problem using just a Teapot and Scanline renderer. It is definitely the lock.
Will have a closer look and pass it on to the Deadline developers if needed.

5

ok cool!

think it has been there for at least half a year if not longer, so not only a 9.x thingy.

6

Oh, it has been there forever, it is mostly a Max bug :smiling_imp:

7

Aww. I’d hoped that viewport business was fixed in a later version of Max…

8

that’s something we hoped for with more elements :wink:

9

I might have a solution for SMTD which I am testing right now and it seems to work, but it would be nice if you could test it.

  • Navigate to your Repository folder, Submission\3dsMax\Main
  • Open the file SubmitMaxToDeadline_Functions.ms in the MAXScript Editor or another text editor.
  • Locate the code block inside the function fn SubmitJobFromUI that looks like

if oldRenderDialogState do ( try(SMTD_MainRollout.Ui_report "+Render Dialog Closed.")catch() )

  • Insert the following right below it:
			local oldRendUseActiveView = rendUseActiveView
			if not rendUseActiveView and viewport.activeViewportID > viewport.numViews do 
			(
				rendUseActiveView = true
				try(SMTD_MainRollout.Ui_report "+UNLOCKED the Render View - the Current Viewport was MAXIMIZED!")catch()
			)
  • Now scroll further down to lines that look like
			--If the merging of XRef objects was requested and there were any, restore the copy of the scene from the temp. file
			if backupSceneFileSaved == true then
			(
				try(SMTD_MainRollout.Ui_report ">Restoring Original Scene From Backup File..."	)catch()
				SMTDFunctions.RestoreMaxFileCopy SMTDPaths.RestoreTempMaxFile
			)
  • Add the following code BEFORE them:
			if not oldRendUseActiveView do 
			(
				rendUseActiveView = false --restore viewport lock if it used to be engaged. Won't be touched if it used to be TRUE (unchecked) anyway
				try(SMTD_MainRollout.Ui_report "+Restored the Render View Lock.")catch()
			)
  • Save the file.
  • Restart SMTD and try to submit with the 4th viewport set to a camera, locked, and maximized.

Without the code changes, you would get the top view rendered. With the changes, you should get the correct camera view rendered.

10

Cool!

I can confirm this works like it should!

thanks

11

This morning I woke up and my fresh brain went through some other possible configurations that might not work with this fix. :smiley:
So I still need to do some more testing to make sure every case is covered. But glad it solved that particular problem…