BUG: network render crashes while using Alembic (.abc) for animated plants

[ZO6039]

I use .abc files to render animated plants with ForestPack on render farm. About one year ago I rendered .abc plants without problems, but now I get many errors on Deadline render farm:
Error: RenderTask: Unexpected exception (IPolyMeshSchema::get()

I get about 50 errors on 200 frames. Same computers which had an error can render same frame during next attempt. I don't know if this is FP problem or V-Ray problem. I use FP v.9.3.2 and V-Ray v.7.20.04.

[Michal Karmazín]

Hi,

I'm sorry to hear you're facing trouble with it. Would you mind running a quick test using Forest Tools to export all items as instances before rendering? You can find this option under Utilities > More... > Forest Tools. For more information, please refer to our online reference guide. This test will help us figure out if the issue occurs during the conversion of the Forest object or not. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

[ZO6039]

I have forest packs with trees and bushes. I tried to instantiate both of them. Trees forest pack finished fine but bushes forest pack crashed 3ds max.