Reflective decals

[Peter Milner]

The renderfarm doesn't support reflective decals.

They work on my local machine but lose their reflectivity when I send them to the farm.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Thanks-- I'll take a look.  I need to update the farm soon anyway for the hybrid engine stuff.  A small example would be helpful.

[Peter Milner]

Any update on when this might be fixed?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Not yet.  I'm going to look at this particular bug pretty soon-- it shouldn't be a big deal if I can find it.  If you've got a small example that would be helpful.

Before I can release it though, I need to look at some potential trace instability in the core libs.  After release it will require testing-- I can only do so much here with a product like the farm-- so I will be relying on you and other farm users to test it for general stability.

[Peter Milner]

I thought I uploaded a sample model.

Here it is again.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The problem here was in the writer-- it will require a new nXt build to fix-- which means it will have to come from RenderPlus once I send them the new core changes.  Look for 344 or better.

I'm also going to release a new version of the Render Farm in the next few days.  If all you want to do is fix your current bug then you will not need to update (updating a lot of nodes is still a pain.)  The update will include the changes I made to interior sun shadows in the hybrid engine.  A lot of internal changes have been made for this build-- so don't update if you have a deadline looming-- it can wait.

[Rich Hart]

I build and posted a new version with the new 0344 toolkit:

http://www.renderplus.com/downloads/nXtRender/arnxt_0344-NI25.exe

http://www.renderplus.com/downloads/nXtRender/arnxt64_0344-NI25.exe

Please try that and see if reflective decals are working for you in the Render farm. Thanks.

[Peter Milner]

Is this just an update for the Renderfarm software and will it work with nXt build 318?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

This is an update to the main, in-AutoCAD product.  It should fix the reflective decals problem-- I think (but I'm not sure) without updating the farm.  You must update the main product for this bug to be fixed.

There is also a farm update available (on the download menu) which should improve the soft-shadow hybrid issue on the farm.  See my notes in the previous post about updating. 

[Peter Milner]

That's annoying as the reflective decals work fine on my local machine, just not with the farm.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The problem, like I said, was in the writing of the data to the farm.  That's done by the main product-- I don't really have any alternative.

[Peter Milner]

Okay, I'll just have to work round it by adding a thin glass sheet in front of the decal.

I'll see how the farm update goes.