Hi James,
I am trying to render out aa test sequence to see how well CR works for me and I am using an alembic cloth simulation, I've attached an image. In some instances the the cloth is seen matching the character's position and in others not so much. In the images below you can see the t shirt matching the character's position in the bottom but the top picture is the opposite. These are consecutive frames. Any idea why this is happening?
Hi @aaronksen just checking if my answer helped at all?
Ok, have you checked out the section in our documentation on using external assets? You'll find that section under "Configuring Projects for rendering" here.
I think what is happening here is that your Alembic cache is being used only on your local node and the other machine/s don't have access to it.
Crowdrender, when rendering, uses Blender in background to render. Blender doesn't know how to find a cache file on another computer. So on a render node, Blender needs help to be able to find the cache on your master computer.
The 'help' Blender needs usually involves;
Making sure the cache file is in a shared location that is accessible across your network.
The render nodes have valid login credentials and the correct permissions to access that shared location (the share could be on the master/client or it could be on a dedicated file server/NAS)
The share location path is EXACTLY the same on all render nodes as on the client/master machine. This makes mixing OS types like windows/*nix harder because they use different path formats.
Hope this helps :)