Batch render
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So I'm using Vray 2 but the batch render doesn't seem to be working that well for me. I've got my scenes set up, the batch render box is checked, and I click the BR button. It renders the first scene ok but then it stops at the end and pops up an error message that Vray is still rendering.
It seems as though it's getting ahead of itself and trying to render the next scene before the previous scene is completely done. I tried bumping the scene delay up to 20 seconds thinking that might help but I got the same behavior.
Any ideas as to what I'm missing here?
-Brodie
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I have heard this from at least one other user too. We are looking in to it.
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Have you upgraded to the latest 2.0 service pack? It seems to handle the batch render better.
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I thought I did. I'm not quite sure how to check which version I have installed.
-Brodie
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Window->Preferences->Extensions and then click on V-Ray for SketchUp. You should see the version number listed in the details at the bottom of the window. I'm told that this issue may actually be fixed in a recent nightly build, if not the service release.
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Thanks Devin,
It looks like I'm on 2.00.24261
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ok, so that's the service release. I believe you have nightly access, could you try in a nightly build?
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Hrm, I could but I'm not sure it's worth the hassle, especially without knowing if anything will change. I was just hoping the issue was on my end. I've got a farm of about 20 machines so updating is quite an undertaking. I was hoping to stay on a stable release for a bit before trying a new nightly.
I assume others have gotten batch render to work though?
-Brodie
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@unknownuser said:
Hrm, I could but I'm not sure it's worth the hassle, especially without knowing if anything will change. I was just hoping the issue was on my end. I've got a farm of about 20 machines so updating is quite an undertaking. I was hoping to stay on a stable release for a bit before trying a new nightly.
I assume others have gotten batch render to work though?
-Brodie
It's been working for me lately.
Can you try just updating one DR node and do a test run first?
Andy
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at our office, I have all of the machines in our render farm, syncing the ASGVIS folder, so they all have the same version of DR running. No problems so far, except that you need to ensure that the dr spawner is restarted after the sync is complete.
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Great tip Devin, I hadn't thought of that. Are you using some sort of syncing program or using symbolic links so that the computers are basically grabbing from the same folder?
-Brodie
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I use a NAS drive, Synology DS412+, which has a syncing service called Cloud Station. You could similarly use Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. Just make the whole ASGVIS folder synced between them all, shut down the spawner on all of the machines, install an update on one machine, wait for the files to propagate (shouldn't take long) and then start it up on all of the machines again.
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could you guys solve this? having the same problem here.
cheers,
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To use the batch render tool in V-Ray 2.0 you no longer need to check the batch render button in your Globals roll-out menu. What you may want to do is set your scene delay to 0, and turn off scene transitions all together. That could be whats causing it. It may be getting stuck between scenes.
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I have got the same problem with the same build as mentioned by Brodie. It doesn't want to start te next render. Anyone have a solution for this problem? I could use some sleep, batch render would help!
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@nd1969 said:
I have got the same problem with the same build as mentioned by Brodie. It doesn't want to start te next render. Anyone have a solution for this problem? I could use some sleep, batch render would help!
The build described is an old build. Id recommend upgrading to the latest version of V-Ray for Sketchup, Service Pack 3, which is on the website under downloads: http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/downloads.html. After you log in you'll have access to the latest build.
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