Hi ya !
I have a problem ! I have a master and 4 slaves all running 2.8 and CR17, I have an addon enabled called "toonkit" that uses OSL and that is installed on all machines aswell. So far all computers are synced and ready and can render from the master fine and dandy. My master and all slaves are set to cycles and have OSL enabled which is required for the toonkit addon . My problem is that crowd render will not render the toonkit shader when the slaves are enabled, however! it will render the toonkit shader when the master is ONLY selected . Also for the master only render I used the "render still" button in crowd render so the addon did the render. What do you think is happening?
@ James. Hi James. I worked out the problem concerning the addon and it was the addons problem. Turns out the version I had did not auto start/enable when blender opens, so when I started my slaves the add on was still turned off on all four nodes. I checked there website and they had an update which auto eables the addon ! so I updated the addon across all machines and the renders work!
A simple fix and glad that it was nothing more technical . Just would like to thankyou and congratulate you on your public relations management, you are really ontop of things. Peace !
Screen shots.
OK, I have run some tests to see if I could find out some clues. I did a render using the CR render button with only the Master synced. This was the result
Next I rendered the same settings, re connected slaves and synced only the slaves leaving out the Master.
Lastly I included all machines .
By the way all renders were set to manual.
ok so i think what is happening is that CR is not choosing cycles for the render engine. There is another option in the render panel called "Engine". It is choosing "engine". How do i get CR to render from cycles
i will post some screen shots soon. excited to get this sorted. Once this is sorted I think i can commit to crowd render and you it for my projects.
Hi Ben, we'll investigate, I am not 100% sure why it wouldn't use the toolkit on the slaves if it is setup on your master to render like that and the master works.