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kyle.sutherland
2010-10-28, 03:22 PM
Hello all:

This is a relatively simple problem that has a complex description, so I'll try my best to simplify it.

I have a scene that is 900 frames long. I am using a daylight system to illuminate it. I have 20 computers on my network that have backburner on it that I use for renderings. In backburner monitor, when I distribute this scene to have it rendered, *some* of the computers throw and error looking for c:\documents and settings\%username%\local settings\temp\hemispherical_003_half_tiled(x).exr

the x in (x) can be any number from 1-9.

I have no idea why it is doing this. I don't know why it is making that file there. I don't know what is causing this behavior. I can find hemispherical_003_half_tiled.exr and I can change the name, but the illumination on that scene when rendered on a machine that does this doesn't come out like the rest of the computers on the network.

The most bizarre thing about this is that the problem is so random, I can't figure out or predict which computer it is going to do this on. I did a full rendering of all the frames last night and one of the computers, its frames came out fine. I made no changes to the model and re-rendered this morning, and now it is looking for that file. It is incredibly infuriating.

Help!

manho.lam
2010-10-29, 10:21 PM
Are you using a .exr in your scene?

If so copy the .exr to a network location that all the computer can see and load it into your scene from there.