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New to deadline - Region rendering (3dsmax/Vray)

Hi all,

I’m new to deadline and have it set up to manage my small renderfarm in our studio. We’ve moved over from backburner so getting around the more complicated interface is taking some time.

We are trying to send a 3ds max region, everything is set up as per usual in max (2016/vray 3.5) and in deadline 9 we’ve selected “3DS MAX REGION Rendering - Single Job, Frames as tasks” as well as checking the “Use 3ds Max Region” checkbox.

The region itself renders fine and saves out the main image however it doesn’t save out the render elements for the region?

Does anyone here know why that would be?

Do you have V-Ray VFB enabled? If so, Render Elements are suppressed if defined in the normal 3ds Max RE tab. Assuming you are not rendering out of V-Ray VFB RAW image as an EXR (which would then contain the RE’s in question), then you would need to ensure you enable the V-Ray VFB “Split Render Channels” option in VFB, so that RE’s are generated. SMTD job submission in 9.0.0.18 fully respects V-Ray VFB. Finally, if you want to control exactly how these RE’s are then created/saved in a sub-directory per RE, etc, then make sure you configure the “Pathing Options” settings in SMTD under the “Render” Tab.
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