Network rendering

[kamedonski]

I have many users who run tyFlow on their farm with zero issues, and who have never run those machines in UI mode.

This seems more like a configuration issue on your farm that was resolved when Max entered UI mode, for some reason. The fact that tyFlow wasn’t even loaded in headless mode seems to demonstrate that it’s not a tyFlow issue (tyFlow can’t control Max behavior if it’s not even loaded).

One final thing you can check is the max.log file that Max always generates during startup, that contains a more verbose log than what Deadline generates. You’ll have to search your machines for that file…I can’t remember the default location. But it may contain further details about the issue.

Max.log showed there is no tyflow plugin on render node. However I found out that sometimes max doesn't load all plugins from default plugin folder. Workaround is to add ADSK_3DSMAX_PLUGINS_ADDON_DIR enviroment variable pointing to default plugin folder. Issue decribed here:

https://forums.thinkboxsoftware.com/t/de...le/30409/2

Thank you very much for help!