Yeah, I've been reading about this so much my brain could explode. I have managed to fix the problem I was having when satellite rendering with shadows. I was running Softimage version 7.0, so I upgraded to 7.5 and this seems to have fixed that problem. #:-s I still have to use the "set MI_FORC...

The problem is, I do seem to be getting some crashes when rendering with shadows. No shadows works fine. All I did was create a sphere and a light. Turn on shadows. Subdivide the sphere twice and duplicated it, and Softimage just closes whenever I render. It closes as soon as I get to about 15 spher...

Wow, thanks for the great information! So, im getting "socket communication issues" then? Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Or, if there is another way to get the BSP2 to work? Some sort of work-around? But, besides that, I have done some tests and it seems irradiance particles, ambie...

Hello again

Problem solved on another forum!

“go into the setenv file and add the line

set MI_FORCE_OLD_BSP=1”

So, if anyone gets the same problem. There you go!

Is it possible that the Softimage Advanced Academic license does not allow for satellite rendering? When I said the "master", I meant it as in the computer in which i configured the .ray3hosts file to include the slaves and is the one in which I am trying to render off. Is it possible that...

Hi there! I’m having some problems setting up Satellite Rendering on my network. I have followed a guide on softimage.wiki and everything seems to be set up perfectly, yet the master is still not utilizing the slaves. I have done the ” Configure satellite distributed rendering ” on both the master a...