Lightnet Problem

[robol921]

I'M USING LIGHTNET FOR RENDER SEVERAL SCENES OF ONLY ONE FRAME AND SOME OF THE IMAGES DON'T SAVE, ALL THE SCENES ARE CONFIGURED TO SAVE TO THE SAME DIRECTORY, WHEN I PUT THE SCENES THAT DON'T RENDER IN LIGHTNET AGAIN THEY RENDER, I HAVE MADE TEST WITH ALL COMPUTERS IN THE NET AND ALL ARE WORKING.

SOMEBODY KNOWS THE PROBLEM OR SOLUTION?:confused:

[Ben_Chapé]

Hi,


First you should check than lightnet/screamer is accessing the load/save plugin correctly :

in lightnet on node, Program/Check config, you should have :
'datas retrieved from screamer config files' and the image format you're using should be listed here.

if its not try to re-root the configs.

My current config : i've declared a L: drive on all boxes (pointing on lightwave dir)


1) My lightwave setup for launch :
L:\Programs\LightWav.exe -cL:\lwconfigs


2) my general lightnet setup :

command directory : L:\Lightnet_3\commands
screamerfile : L:\Programs\LWSN.exe
sc cfg file or dir : L:\\lwconfigs

*Be sure you're scene and object images are linked to L: drive and not C:

*Be sure too that you're saving in a common place (example : L:\render)

I hope it helped .

[Adrian@Stufish]

If theres one thing Lightnet is Really Really Bad At, it's doing one frame each of a series of scenes. It seems to get very confused, sometimes the best you can expect is the wrong frame from each scene, more often nothing - it seems to forget which machine has loaded which frame, if there were 8 scenes each wanting frame 1 rendered, you would possibly get one frame in total! I very often try to arrange composite scenes - e.g. no object motion and at least 5 camera positions at a sensible sequence of frames - sometimes with a zoom envelope - so I end up with a selection of stills. It can do that. Or if it's a sequence of stills over an animation I have to tweak the scene so I need every 50th frame or something.
I'm about to try the demo download of amalto (see this board) to see if it can do any better.:rolleyes: But lightnet is very reliable for getting the maximum animation out of every computer on your LAN - all my machines autologon at boot and autolaunch Lightnet, so even after a serious power faliure everthing starts up again, And if i have finally got a scene setup at 10pm on a friday, all I have to do is add it to the render queue and run round all the machines telling them to re-start, confident that 10 minutes later they will all be rendering away happily.

[Greg Lloyd 5]

I copy all of my cfg files to a folder on my I drive in a folder called "LW_config". I copy the configuration files to this folder so I don't have to mess with the C drive re-direct.

So on my I dirve I have this:

I:\LightNet3
I:\Lightwave_7.0
I:\LWconfig

I map all of my computers to this drive as "I", and it never fails.

Greg