This article provides information on preventing discrepancies in the render output between local rendering with V-Ray for 3ds Max and rendering on the Chaos Cloud.
Overview
Chaos Cloud is a software as a service (SaaS) that allows you to submit and render scenes with cloud-based V-Ray. Rendering on the Chaos Cloud is handled by V-Ray Standalone. Although Chaos Cloud and V-Ray for 3ds Max are practically the same software, rendering discrepancies are theoretically possible.
This article will help you identify any potential rendering differences and solve them.
How to prevent unexpected results?
Get familiar with the list of supported features
Before submitting any job to the Chaos Cloud, it's recommended to get familiar with the list of supported features. There might be a feature that's not supported on the Cloud just yet. Chaos is constantly working on supporting more features on the Cloud.
Learn more about the Chaos Cloud supported features.
Analyze your scene before submitting it to the Chaos Cloud
The submit to Chaos Cloud window offers an option to Analyze compatibility of your scene. This feature will warn you if your scene contains any unsupported features such as certain settings, maps, materials, etc. If you got a warning after the analysis completes, then you're likely to get a different render result from the Chaos Cloud compared to rendering locally. To avoid this, replace those maps or materials with ones that are supported.
Render a Preview before submitting it to the Chaos Cloud
The submit to Chaos Cloud window offers an option to render a Preview. It will show a smaller resolution preview of what the render would look like when rendered on the Chaos Cloud. When using the preview, a .vrscene file is exported and rendered locally with V-Ray Standalone. The preview shows the closest result to the Chaos Cloud and can help you minimize the chance of unexpected errors.
Export and render a .vrscene locally
As an alternative to the Preview feature, you can export a .vrscene from 3ds max and render it with V-Ray Standalone locally. This method uses the original resolution.
Here's how:
- Go to the V-Ray tab > .vrscene exporter
- Click the Export and Render button
How to solve discrepancies?
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Always use the latest available versions of V-Ray and the Chaos Client app
We constantly improve our products and add more Supported Features to the Chaos Cloud and V-Ray Standalone. There is less chance to run into an unsupported feature when using the latest versions of our software.
Download the latest Chaos Cloud version.
Download the latest V-Ray for 3ds Max version.
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Replace Unsupported Features with Supported ones
Learn more about the Chaos Cloud supported features.
How to report discrepancies?
If you encounter any differences between the Chaos Cloud and local rendering that are not covered in this article report them to us, so we can fix and include them in future releases. You can do that by:
Using the Contact Form
In this case, we may need additional information from you, such as the original 3ds Max scene along with all the assets and the Chaos Cloud Job ID.
Reporting the Job in your Chaos Cloud account