Maxwell Render

Any ideas? Everything seems to work until the render gets to the target SL and gets stuck on "stopping" also i try to request a preview and nothing happens.

If i render on my machine it works fine. It's just when i use the farm.

I have tried a different file with the same results. The farm machines are mapped correctly, and all of the nodes and manager have the same temp folder location on our network. It's like it cant find a place to save the individual mxi files before it merges them. I have a deadline friday and im starting to get nervous because i can't get these all done on just my machine.

i have my log but dont know how to post it.

a few things you can try:

1:
merging is done on the computer the manager is running on, and will use it's resources (cpu/ram&hdd space)
so make sure it has some ram available and plenty of hdd space (C:\ drive will be used for storing mxi in case of windows)

2:
see if the individual mxi exist on the node machines and copy&merge them manually (emergency solution)

win xp : C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp\mxmnetwork\rendernode

win 7 : C:\users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\mxmnetwork\rendernode

@\manager instead \rendernode you should find the mxi from the nodes if they ever got transfered to the manager computer

3:
test a non-coop render. does it work?

4:
change computer you are running the manager

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workstation: EVGA SR-2 / dual x5650@3.5Ghz / quadro 4000

If it's a very high resolution render / large MXI, then it can take a long time to stop the render nodes. I have waited upwards of 15 minutes. How long did you wait for it?

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Brian Looney
Maxwell + RealFlow
http://lunatic-studio.com/
Help! I'm dispersing into a haze of probability!

i let it sit all night...and ive tried everything that was in the second post...Next Limit sent me a fix but im still having problems but they are looking into it for me. They say it's a bug that's supposed to be fixed in 2.6.

did this ever get figured out? I'm having the same exact problem.

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Are you using macros in the output names? I think there is a bug there, network is looking for the name of the file with the actual macro in the name, like myfile%camera%.mxi instead of myfile_Camera1.mxi. You can still find the rendered MXI file in the temp folder of the nodes though. Copy those and merge manually.

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Next Limit Team
Merchant of happiness

Make sure your mxi output name is actually a .mxi file. I just spent 2 days troubleshooting this issue. I finally realized I accidentally had the mxi being output as a .png file.

Nothing in maxwell told me this was causing the issue...nothing in the log, nothing in the console. stupid stupid stupid.

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