Hai guys,

Basically what the title says. Netrender and slave seems to be communicating fine and the former loaded the project and files fine but after I dragged and dropped the slave into the pool the job and the status just shows like so for a long time:

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And this is what it shows on the remote computer's end:

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Don't know if this matters or not but I also tried to browse see if I can open the folder in windows explorer and file from the remote computer and it took like a minute for the remote computer to see the shared folder on the local computer (render server) but after that file sharing acts normally.

This is the first time I'm using this thing so anyone in here knows what's going on? Is this more of a windows issue and is there a way I can fix it? Any reply appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: Tried using a laptop (not mine) with absolutely no network lag and the status says, "Unable to open project (windows path).prj"

Tried using the loacal computer as a slave, it is able to load all the textures but when it came to loading the .cho file it says:

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So why is this happening when the dialog of the render slave clearlty states the correct path and file exist?

Make sure all your assets are not in folders in the chore. Make sure all computers have access to the assets the same way. Meaning the drive is mounted on each computer the same path.

From that last image, it looks like you are trying to load a Choreography file instead of a Project file. Theoretically, you should be able to load Chor files into Netrender, but in reality, I have only ever been successful loading Project files.

I have the lights in folders. I'll change them. Thanks for the tip.



What does this mean? Do I have to make a copy of the folders of my assets (3d models, decals, materials action ,cho files etc) in the remote computer as well?



Not sure since I tried many combinatioans and can't remember. I'll load only the project next time. Thanks.

Update:

Moved the assets out of the folders and I tried rendering with a local slave and it's fine. Then tried with a remote slave and it can't open the project:

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Any tips and suggestions?

I had this problem b4. Dont worry very easy to solve.

THe answer is in this tutorial

http://www.hash.com/ftp/pub/movies/NetRender.mov

What I believe is happening is your slave computers can not see the assets the same way or "Path" that the server can.

Its an easy fix. Just watch the vid tut very carefully and fallow the instructions.

Ignore the dongle stuff in the tut, it does not apply now

Yaaay!! Thank you! It's rendering!

I've ran across that video a lot of times but didn't bother to look at it. I'm glad I upgraded!