Backburner render problems

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone, first post here and I hope its in the right place.
I am using max 2012 and installed the standalone 2016 backburner (long story short: backburner got corrupted, didnt want to reinstall 3ds max, this was the only standalone install i could find.)
Anyway...my problem is the following. I have a PC and a notebook, so its a very minimalistic renderfarm of two. PC is the manager and it sees the two servers without any problem. I have a scene and 3 cameras, need to render 3 still images. Added them as a batch render. The manager sorts the 3 images out, one of them comes out always perfect, but the notebook always screws up the 1-2 that becomes its task. Always the same way: it does not render the military truck in the scene, just a textureless driver. What can cause this
Thanks in advance.

[Alfred.DeFlaminis · Accepted solution]

Hello @Anonymous and welcome to the community,

First, I'd like to apologize that you experienced such a long delay before you got a reply here. I realize this thread is old, but I'd like to help find an answer for you. Are you still having this issue?

My first guess is that the military truck is a proxy object which lives on one machine and has no network path to the other machines.  Is that a possibility?  Which renderer are you using?

Would it be possible to share this file with me? If privacy is necessary due to NDA reasons, I can create a private folder for you. I am happy to do so if you would like.

Best Regards,

[Anonymous]

Hi there, no worries about being late..in the meantime i figured out it was the exact same issue you were mentioning. Felt kinda stupid but oh well...

[Alfred.DeFlaminis]

Hello @Anonymous,

Thank you for the update and the graceful attitude.  I miss things too from time to time, no need to feel stupid.  In the end you figured it out so kudos to you and thanks again for the update!

Best Regards,