I have recently installed 3DS Max Design 2010 (with SP1) and the new backburner (2008.1.1) software on my farm at work.

I have noticed that backburner has changed the way it writes its running files so that now there is a different setup depending on the user currently logged onto the machine.

My problem is that when I go to render on the farm and tick the ‘include maps’ button, everything gets sent to the manager except the xref files. I mean all the maps and the master file get archived and sent to the manager but it fails to take the xrefs with it. I then get the error ‘scene xref… could not be found’. I totally dont understand what is going on.

Is anyone out there getting the same issues as I am?

Sam Shepherd
http://www.samshepherd.net

I have heared of people having problems with the Include Maps option in the 2010 version. The best thing to do is use a full UNC path to reference external files.

thanks Samab,

I found this link from the Autodesk website;
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/ser...d=13925477&linkID=9241177

My work around this problem has been to work from a shared directory that all my servers can connect too (using full UNC pathing). I did hit a connection issue which I worked out. Because server is running as a ‘service’ I had to make the client run under a special user with permissions to all file shares. Otherwise they couldnt get the xrefs and maps.

However I still want to try and figure out how to ‘inlcude maps’ when submitting a job to ‘Manager’ because I dont fully understand how the clients pick up existing jobs. For example if Im working on a job and set off a preview render not all my client machines might pick up the job. Then I continue working on the job updating models etc. When I go home for the day and some of the client machines pick up the job. Do the new clients start rendering half way through the render with the updated model? Wont I get frames that flash between old and new models depending on when they picked up the model???

Sam Shepherd
http://www.samshepherd.net

so no one out there knows why backburner doesnt include the xref’s when ‘include maps’ is ticked when net rendering???

Its super annoying :(

Sam Shepherd
http://www.samshepherd.net