[Maxer]

When I load a MXS sequence and specify a frame range my animation fails however if I take one of the MXS files and render it out as a single image over the network it works fine. Any ideas as to why this is happening?

[Bogdan Coroi]

What do you mean by "it fails"? Could you please give us more details?

[arch4d]

does the second mxs in the render queue fail ?
that would be exactly as in cooperative mode on our network...

[Maxer]

I mean when I submit the job with a frame range it fails on every single frame, if I submit the same job as a single image it renders.

[bodebodebode]

I have some similiar problem here.

3D max crashes every time i choose to render an animation, but if i select one of its frame and render it alone, it goes well.

Please NL we need some advise on this because rendering lots of frames manually is sacrifice.

[Maxer]

Juan got back with me and said that the reason my animations were failing was because I was saving the output images with number sequences instead of giving them an alphabetical name. I haven't tested this because I had to go back to V1.1 in order to be able to render out my animation after loosing a week trying to figure out this problem. I hope this helps you.

[bodebodebode]

Nice, Maxer.

This trigger rendering !!

No more crashing, but i still havent´s fired up the animation render, later i will post results.

Anyway, thanks and good luck on your animation !

[andrebaros]

I also found that Network Rendering would crash on rendering a frame range if the output files already existed. It seamed to have trouble over writing existing images because after I deleted out those files it worked.

Correction: It worked once, but today I had the same problem and tried the same solution and it didn't work.