photon problems

[gtimages1]

I have just started using photons and am very very pleased to have made the effort to learn from many helpful posts on this site, thanks.

I am have problems using photons with renderama. I am getting different shaded strips in my still images. Larger and smaller depending on how many strips I allocate. Not always in the same places. Seemed to start when I played with the customise direct and bounced lighting graphs. This happens on 3 slaves on my laptop Mac and also on external macs in my farm. Same problem.

Another problem is I am getting some sort of error on my Windows 7 slaves, an error about photons. Do I need to put some files I am not aware of on the Windows machines?

Please help, I can only render with one machine.

Thanks

Greg Thomas

[Tomas Egger]

Ola Greg,

Sorry, I lost your message in the Forum.

Question: With Macs works fine but not with PCs? using strip render, correct?

- Are you using Photons map as Permanent or Always?

- Did you try to turn off Render Anti-Alias and a lower count of Primary Rays on GI window?

- Are your PC Slaves up to date?

Thanks

Tom