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Error: Bad Texture - While netrendering w/ .map

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gdiman 2002-07-29 18:03:45 UTC #1

Does anyone knows how to netrender a scene that has a .map image in it.
Render hangs and gives an error message: Bad Texture.......
Any ideas?
Thanks!

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richard-sher 2002-07-30 12:40:29 UTC #2

The .map file has to be in the same place on each machine. (Local.) Like c:imagesmapfiles

Because of the nature of map files and the way they work, they can not be accessed across the network. (It would be too slow.)

gdiman 2002-07-31 08:08:57 UTC #3

Thanks Ed!
I've just tried what you suggested and it's still not working!
I've tried the images path as Abs and Rel (C:Tmpxyz.map)
This is the error msg I get:
INFO:PHEN 2.2 error: mi_lookup_color_texture:bad texture 00200000
It works fine, when I only have my machin in the .ray3host file.
Any more ideas?

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theallusionist 2002-07-31 16:44:03 UTC #4

Its a mental ray problem, that has been fixed for V3...
you can't rayhost render with memory mapped textures

convert back to pics and all will be well

richard-sher 2002-08-01 00:18:34 UTC #5

doh, sorry about that. I've been using V3 and didn't realize that it was broken in V2.

gdiman 2002-08-01 06:39:29 UTC #6

Thanks!

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worldyum 2002-08-11 14:30:47 UTC #7

Have you tried loading the .map from a network location rather than locally? i.e. share the directory containing the .map and when you load it into XSI, load it via the network (so the path to the file will be something like "MasterGfxMapsHDRI" which all machines will be able to find)

gdiman 2002-08-12 07:22:11 UTC #8

Yes, I have tried that also. It just does not work in this version of MR.

I had the same exact problem with MR for Maya, too. : (
So, it's probably not XSI bug. It's a MR bug.

Oh, well XSI 3 is on the way. That will solve a lot of my problems!

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worldyum 2002-08-12 17:30:40 UTC #9

Ok. How about mapping your textures dir as a network drive of the same letter on all machines concerned (including the master)?
So all machines have, say, drive Z, which is a network drive which is your textures dir?

Just a thought

theallusionist 2002-08-14 08:43:38 UTC #10

its a bug!
you CANNOT use map files with distributed rendering!

official!

no solutions......

fixed in MR 3.1

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