I’ve been pulling my hair out over this one. There aren’t many posts regarding it either. Has anyone found a solution when a netrender won’t run and the error you get is: “Camera * defined but not found”

I have double checked the naming, even renamed it to Camera01 and tried, but no go.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled backburner on the network.
All paths are correct on the network.

Any help would be appreciated.

Graham Calhoun

Edit: Hmmm, don’t know how I managed to post this in the animation section. Could someone move it to the rendering section? I’d appreciate it. (didn’t there used to be a backburner section?)

Graham Calhoun
President
Forensic ProMedia

Graham, someone here had the same error.  He cloned the camera and deleted the old one, and it worked fine.  I believe he traced it to a camera that had been xreffed in at one time?  I don’t recall for certain.

But it was some sort of corruption of the camera object, and replacing fixed his problems.

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Hey Chris, yes, I should have added that I’ve tried that as well. Thanks for responding, though.

Graham

PS. Where’d my profile go?

Graham Calhoun
President
Forensic ProMedia

Sorry Graham.  Turns out he didn’t clone the camera, he created a new one and used the Align tool to set it in the same place.  In his case, it was a still camera with no animation, so there was nothing lost.

He’d heard of similar issues with Max 9 files being opened in 2008 when that was first released.  Was this file started in a previous version of Max?

3DS Max Design 2011 64-bit - Advantage Pack
Dell Precision T5500, Dual Six Core Xeon X5650 @ 2.67GHz, nVidia Quadro 5000, 24 GB RAM, Win 7 Enterprise 64-bit
Minneapolis, MN, USA

Chris,

Thank you for your interest. However, I found the solution to my issue in this thread: http://area.autodesk.com/for...tching-to-gigabit-switch/

It turns out I recently added a gigabit switch to my network. Although the switch was a different maker and model, as soon as I removed it, everything started working fine! I will have to investigate this further, as it still seems to be a backburner issue, because two different people, with two different switches is too much of a coincidence to NOT say there’s something up with Backburner.

Thanks again.

Graham Calhoun
President
Forensic ProMedia

I’d like to add my own findings on the same issue.
I didn’t change my switch or router, didn’t use an xreffed camera and didn’t have long camera name.
What I did do was add my laptop to the render farm - where it spat those errors.
However - this laptop usually is connected wirelessly - this time I added it to the farm with a cable. Turns out - if I don’t disable the wireless connection then I get these errors. It was connected with two connections - wired and wireless - so that might explain why sometimes it would render fine and sometimes not.
Now that I’ve disabled the wireless connection it works fine.

My 2 cents