Hi. I was testing Crowdrender and got a problem. Everything is fine, computers are synced, but when I render image, I only got my part of image, the part from another computer was blank.
I noticed that it was writing a message "image saved C:/Users/..." and then got a sequence like "\\xd0\\x9b\\xd0\\xb5\\xd0\\xbe\\xd0\\xbd\\xd0\\xb8\\xd0\\xb4\\". Problem is that my user name is set "Леонид" in CYRYLLIC, not LATIN, and your addon can't convert it properly from HEX.
In system logs I found a lot of this:
The system cannot find the specified path: C:\\\\Users\\\\\\xd0\\x9b\\xd0\\xb5\\xd0\\xbe\\xd0\\xbd\\xd0\\xb8\\xd0\\xb4\\\\cr\\\\server\\\\dd232dd9-7b4a-4a9c-8132-e051d72688c6\\\\Scene_ea9d6dae-6029-5b9c-be6b-7237d26a06770001.exr'
I solved a problem, changing all user names and system paths in registry to latin for all computers in my network. But, it took a while to find the problem and solution. And changing names in Windows can be tricky too. For now, I think, most users, that have non-latin system path names wount be able to use your addon properly.
Hoping this can help you improve it.
Best regards.
Hi Leonid, wow, thanks for all that information! This was something that was definitely not on our minds! I'll look into how this might be avoided in the future!
Ok, I just tried this on MacOS with a linux render node, I used your name as the file name, it all worked fine, so is this just a problem on windows? Have you tried other OS types? I'll try testing windows later this week, but, just wanted to find out if you'd had the same problem on another OS?
"C:\Users\Leo\cr\server\74d13a3f-a36f-4506-9be9-7c3224cc7e51\svr.blend"
Problem appears when the user name (and the name of the system "user" folder) is cyrillic, like
C:\Users\Леонид\cr\server\74d13a3f-a36f-4506-9be9-7c3224cc7e51\svr.blend
I didn't try it on mac systems yet. Not shure about that.
By the way, I asked a few of my co-workers, and not all of them have cyrillic usernames. Advanced users are using latin, trying to keep all system path names latin. So it's a common problem ))