#clouds
I am having problems with 3D Studio network rendering. I am using
the standard "noise_i.sxp" which ships with 3D Studio R4 to create a
cloud-like texture which is assigned to a flattened dome over my
model to simulate a sky. This is a very convincing way to make a sky
with random cloud patterns (thus the use of the noise_i.sxp process).
In order to make the clouds the proper size in the model, I adjusted
the "size" of the noise_i.sxp process within its own dialog box in
the materials editor. When the model is rendered locally, the
results are predictable and and the cloud-like pattern is at a
believable scale. However, when the model is rendered to the
network, the "size" of the noise_i.sxp process appears to return to
its default scale, and the cloud-like pattern is horribly tiny.
I have tried a number of things to try to remedy this problem, but
nothing yet has proven successful.
1) I moved all of the textures and processes to network drives. each
"slaved" machine has no textures or processes locally, and all have
the appropriate map-paths assigned to the network map and process
directories.
2) I reinstalled 3D Studio R4 on all slaved machines useing the
recommended minimal installation for slave machines.
3) I adjusted the "SET_IPAS_RDONLY" command to "YES" to see if this
solved the scaling problem.
4) All machines used are Compaq Pentiums @ 60Mhz (Three machines are
66Mhz) and all of them have 40 MB of RAM (Three have 32 MB).
I don't know what else to try, but I definately need a solution.