Hi all,

I am trying to set an animation to render over network. I have only two computers, so I am using those on the renderfarm. Here is what I did:

1. Click on "render animation" on the timeline
2. Make all necessary changes in "animation render options"
3. Select "External Renderer" --> "Hypervue network manager"

At this point, all nodes read "Idle." So I assume everything is going well. I click Render Animation and the batch rendering window pops out. On the Hypervue manager, I see the status "Sending scene" beside each node and stays there for over an hour. It hasn't moved ever since. I try to abort the animation, but hypervue crashes.

Am I doing something wrong, or is it just a bug?

EDIT: I never can get the network rendering to proceed, even on still scenes.

Do you have any antivirus programs or firewall programs running (Norton, ZoneAlarm, etc.)?  They can really hose up network rendering.

Did you start RenderCow on both computers?  

I re-boot, shut off Norton, start the cows, then open Vue and click render. 

Well Vue 5 Infinite Rendercow works fine with antivirus RUNNING.

Turning off Antivirus does not resolve the issue.

What are your render settings? For example, you can't choose "final", because of some options for this preset, like hybrid dof & blur, that are not compatible with hypervue, and in this case, the batch will automatically replace the hypervue network.
Change your render settings and choose "user settings", and uncheck options lke hybrid dof & blur, and then it should work.

If you have rendercow versions from V5 and V6 on the same system, check your port setting on them. Both V5 and V6 use port 5002 by default, and with two cows on the same port, you can get stalls or crashes if Vue trys to access the wrong one. Try changing one versions ports to 5000 and see if that helps. Or simply exit the incorrect cows to free the system.

Hi,

Same problem for me, I thought I solved it but it just came back the next day.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2685223

The thing is I can create a blank scene and add say a sphere and render that over the very same network with no problem. It seems to be large scenes it has problems with.

Jon

@ bruno: Wait a second, I have rendered Hybrid-blurred animations in Vue 5 Infinite over network before. I have to disable Hybrid blurring when rendering still pictures though.

@ Dale B: So I have to change port settings, even though Vue 6 is running by itself? I will try to change port settings to see if it works.

@ Jon: I have a similar problem, but while Hypervue is "sending scene", there is no CPU strain (CPU usage at 2%.....) Weird. I will try making a very simple scene to see if large scenes are a problem.

It isn't Vue 6 that is the problem; It is the fact that you have V5 and V6 -rendercows- on the same port.whichever one comes up first can lock the port to it. And if it isn't the right one, then things don't work. It can also create a situation where Vue finds the wrong cow, and that usually leads to a flat out crash. Or a lot of unable to communicate type messages.

Well, I have successfully started a render of a still image over network. I just followed Dale's advice on changing the ports. BUT, I went even further by configuring each computer on a VPN (although all computers are already on a physical LAN, hehe). When all computers are connected to a VPN, Hypervue seems to run flawlessly and smoothly.

Weird...

I will try to resume rendering an animation over network after my still image has completed. Thank you all for the helpful advice.

I will be back...