mental ray satellite

[enro]

someone can help me set up mental ray satellite.

what have i got to instal?
i haven't mental ray stand alone, can i set it up anyway?
?????????????????????:rolleyes:

[Brian Bradley]

Hey Enro

No need for the stand alone, all you need is your network
set up and install Max from your install disc on your other
computer(s). Simply identify your i.p addresses within Max
and voila.

Regards
Bri

[Spacelord]

Satelite rendering is so easy to setup in Max, well compared to XSI.
Just follow what Brain said, just make sure when you install Max on your other machines that you take note of which port numbers to use. Then when your in Max you can put in the port number and name of machine and your all good to go.

[ghiom]

Hello,

I've an issue with Satelite .

I've Mine main computer with MAX9/ Xppro and i want to use distributed rendering.
On My slave computer i've Max8 and Max9 on XP64 .

When i start my distributed render mental ray show me this error message :
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MSG 0.0 error 011021: missing capability RAY35
MSG 0.0 error 011218: master (version 3.5.2.6____) and slave (version 3.4.4.10___) may not be used together
MSG 0.0 error 011706: cannot add host 1xx.xxx.x.xxx:7501
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Looks like Mental Ray 3.5 call mentalRay3.4 on my slave computer . The MAX8 mental ray instead of the MAX9 mental Ray .

To solve this, maybe i need to uninstall MAX8, but i can't at this day because i've some ARTVPS hardware Render card wich only works on MAX8 for now. And i've some cebas Plugins wich only works on Max8 too .

Anyone have an idea to solve this issue ?

Regards,
Ghiom

[ghiom]

I've find myself how to resolve this issue .

I've opened my task manager and i've see that Raysat for max 8 and raysat for Max9 are both running.

I've killTask Raysat for Max8.

Everything work fine. I can do distributed rendering with MAX9 now .

But i need to kill 1 task or rename raysat.exe to raysat.exe.disable for example to haven't it running when i restart my computer .

It's sad that Raysat for 9 try to communicate with Raysat For 8 instead of 9 . looks like a bad Dev ....

[MasterZap]

Open your
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\services
file in Notepad.

It should contain an entry for the max9 satellite, and one for the max8 satellite. You'll notice they are on different *ports* (the number in the front is the port number). You need to set up that port number in the calling machine.

mi-raysat_3dsmax8 7501/tcp
mi-raysat_3dsmax9 7509/tcp #mental ray satellite service

Then it should work fine.

/Z