Distributed rendering with sprite shader results in empty tiles from slave
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Symptom
You have installed the sprite shader addon on the master conputer and the render slave. When a distributed render is launched you notice empty tiles in your rendered images.
Cause
This is due to bug #80458:Distributed rendering with sprite shader results in empty tiles from slave
Solution
The sprite shader addon should be installed using the same setting ( User or Factory) on both master and slave machines. The default setting is Factory
If you have installed the addon as Factory:
*warning*: It is recommended that you have your systems administrator do the following. Or call support@softimage
On the slave machine
1) Go to ..SoftimageXSI_2.03Application src and edit the ray3rc file using a text editor.
2) Cut the load factory shader plugins entries and paste them at the end of the file. Now save the file(make sure it does not have a .txt extension)
################ load Factory shader plugins
registry "{SHADER_PLUGIN_HOME}"
value "{XSI_HOME}"
end registry
$lookup "{SHADER_PLUGIN_HOME}"
registry "{LOAD_FACTORY_PLUGINS}"
echo "Loading Factory shader plugins"
mi "{XSI_HOME}/Addons/shader_plugins.mi"
end registry
$lookup "{LOAD_FACTORY_PLUGINS}"
3) Now on the master machine, launch the render
If you have installed the addon as User:
On the slave machine
1) Make sure that the addon is installed under the same user as on the master
2) In Services(control panel) make sure that the Ray3xsi2_0 Server is started logging on under the same user account as above(by default this service is started under the local system account).
3)Go to ..SoftimageXSI_2.03Application src and edit the ray3rc file using a text editor.
4) Cut the load User shader plugins entries and paste them at the end of the file. Now save the file(make sure it does not have a .txt extension)
################ load User shader plugins
registry "{SHADER_PLUGIN_HOME}"
value "{$XSI_USER_SHADERPLUGINS}"
end registry
$lookup "{SHADER_PLUGIN_HOME}"
registry "{LOAD_USER_PLUGINS}"
echo "Loading User shader plugins"
mi "{$XSI_USER_SHADERPLUGINS}/Addons/shader_plugins.mi"
end registry
$lookup "{LOAD_USER_PLUGINS}"
5) On the master machine, launch the render
Applies To: XSI 2.0.1 on NT,Win2K
Posted: 6/21/2002
