Hello,
first thanks for this really promising addon!
I wanted to test the distributed rendering with blender 2.8, win10 64bit and got this error (tried to install vc_redist.x64 and *.x86 failed as well):
fake_module: addon missing 'bl_info' gives bad performance!: 'C:\\Users\\fzele\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\VisionHDR.py'
multiple addons with the same name:
'C:\\AAA\\soft\\blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\render_auto_tile_size.py'
'C:\\Users\\fzele\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\render_auto_tile_size.py'
fake_module: addon missing 'bl_info' gives bad performance!: 'C:\\Users\\fzele\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\VisionHDR.py'
reloading addon: crowdrender 1546113587.2103374 1546113646.5904863 'C:\\Users\\fzele\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\crowdrender\\__init__.py'
multiple addons with the same name:
'C:\\AAA\\soft\\blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\render_auto_tile_size.py'
'C:\\Users\\fzele\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons\\render_auto_tile_size.py'
Modules Installed () from 'C:\\Users\\fzele\\Downloads\\download.zip' into 'C:\\Users\\fzele\\AppData\\Roaming\\Blender Foundation\\Blender\\2.80\\scripts\\addons'
Exception in module register(): C:\Users\fzele\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\crowdrender\__init__.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\AAA\soft\blender\2.80\scripts\modules\addon_utils.py", line 393, in enable
mod.register()
File "C:\Users\fzele\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\crowdrender\__init__.py", line 119, in register
cr_source.register()
File "C:\Users\fzele\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\__init__.py", line 81, in register
cr_version.register()
File "C:\Users\fzele\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\bl_2_8_79\__init__.py", line 944, in register
initialiser.register_package()
File "C:\Users\fzele\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\bl_2_8_79\__init__.py", line 360, in register_package
self.cr_import()
File "C:\Users\fzele\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\2.80\scripts\addons\crowdrender\src\bl_2_8_79\__init__.py", line 313, in cr_import
from . import settings
File "/Users/jamescrowther/Desktop/Crowdrender/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/blender_addon/2.80/crowdrender/src/cr/settings.py", line 46, in <module>
File "/Users/jamescrowther/Desktop/Crowdrender/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/blender_addon/2.80/crowdrender/src/cr/utils.py", line 539, in <module>
File "/Users/jamescrowther/Desktop/Crowdrender/cr_compile/releases/multi OS releases/blender_addon/2.80/crowdrender/src/cr/utils.py", line 506, in set_cr_path
AttributeError: '_RestrictContext' object has no attribute 'user_preferences'
could you help please?
many thanks,
filip
Hi Filip, we're currently working on a version that supports blender 2.80 beta. We do have a version available to download, but sadly after releasing it, blender institute changed their blender 2.80 beta download with an update that causes this error. We have only just discovered this and we're working on a patch to the current downloads. The last version that our addon worked with was Blender 2.80.35, if you can get access to this version the current blender 2.80 compatible addon can be downloaded from our site and should work fine with this specific version of Blender.
The Blender institute will keep changing the blender 2.80 beta download quite often until the final official release. So we'll keep seeing things change and potentially break our addon. Until that happens, you're most welcome to download the addon, but please understand that it may not always work. We'll try to keep up with the changes as they happen but there is a delay in the time between we see a problem and we can fix it and distribute a new build :)
Hope this helps
Hello James, absolutely understand and thanks again!
Hi James, do you already know when this bug is fixed? I would love to try the crowd render addon with blender 2.8. I'm currently starting with 2.8 (I have never used the older versions because I was never able to understand the UI of these versions), so downgrading to the stable versions of Blender is unfortunately no option for me.
Hi Sebastian, sorry for taking ages to get to this, yes, the bug is fixed, you can now download a version of our add-on that supports blender 2.80. You'll need to make sure you are using version 2.80.40 or greater of Blender to use it though.
Aaanndd, I can't guarantee that by now the 2.80.40 build has either been replaced with a newer version, or has been changed by a daily build that again breaks the addon. Though so far it seems to be working still.
Hi James,
of course I have downloaded the new version on the day when you have put it online - and I've freezed my Blender 2.80 installations to the version of the same date. :)
The installation of Crows Render works well now. And using Crowdrender works well too as long as I'm using only Macs as nodes. When I add a Windows PC to the nodes all computers render too, but I only get a transparent / empty image as render result when they are finished. The Computer I'm working on is a Mac, 4 other Macs and 2 Windows 10 PCs are nodes. For me this is not a huge problem because my Macs (which are Hackintoshs) are faster than my other PCs). But I'm still testing. I have found other bugs (with manual load balancing). I'll create a new post when my tests are finished. :)
Hi Sebastian, yes please do let us know any/all problems you encounter, the more issues you find, the more we can fix. Please make sure to provide us with a way to reproduce the problem, sometimes the best way is to create blend file with instructions written to the text editor. This way we can run the blend file you provide and make sure we're testing a close facsimile of your setup.
Perhaps the first thing to do would be to see if you can help us reproduce that issue where the PCs do not return an image. One thing to test would be to see if the PCs can connect to each other (so exclude the macs) and try rendering just with PCs.
thx!
Thank you so much for your hard work and services,
But I could not install in the Blender 2.80 beta, Ubuntu 18.10 cosmic.
Error: my Python version: 3.6.7
Crowrender support up to 3.6.5 only.
Regards,
T.Silappathikaram
Email: silappathikaram@gmail.com
Hi There Sil :) (hope you don't mind me shortening your name, its an Australian thing we do). So, you are quite right, but don't worry, we're working on a new version that will hopefully better support many different versions of python without this kind of problem :)
Ok, Thank you,
Great services