Still using DS 4.6 on a Mac. --- Below is a disscusion that started what I am doing now, if you are interested in some background.
I have access to a network of at least 25 machines. I have my main machine that I have DS installed with all my assets, plugins, lights, etc on it. This is the one I do the work on. I want to render on some of the other machines while I work on something else. Most of my renders takes weeks to finish. I'm doing image sequence animations.
I have solved many problems that got me to this point but I can't figure this one out. If you are interested, I can lay it out in more detail what I had to do up to this point because it isn't as easy as it might seem but it does work many times.
Trying to be as breif as I can, What I do is to open a project up that resides on my main machine over the network on one of the machines to be rendered, using all the assetts from the main machine. The only thing I had to copy over to the network machine was the Advanced Lights Set which wouldn't load into the scene (I mean the lights were in the scene but wouldn't light untill I copied them over to the render machine because I guess they reside in the applications plugins folder). Everything else seemed to load up from the original Machine. I had a render going over the Thanksgiving Holiday which worked fine, while I had a different render going on my main machine as well at the same time. They both worked although the network machine seemed to be slowish, I think.
Here's my current problem! I have this masive scene with some animation as of now but much more will be added later. This scene must have several Hundred items in it. yea, it's cool. I have no problems on the main machine where it was built, it loads right up and works fine but on the network machine, it says that there are some files missing which are in "data/auto_adapted/etc/etc/etc". The directory or Library path seems to be the same where all the other assets are loacated, there are assets here and there all over the place. In the scene the assets are represented by grey shaded box actually almost resembling the objects they should be,, sort of. When you render the scene these assets dissapear completely without any trace and the rest of the scene renders perfectly. So I can't figure out why this bunch of files aren't found. I did have to play with the content manager to get the network copy to look in the other maching to get the regular assets but I can't seem to point DS to where these filse are in order to load them. I even copied those directories over to the network machine and added it to the manager but that didn't work either. Any advice?
Thanks,
Steve