Hi Billy,
Sorry to hear, you're facing these troubles. Would you mind to specify your actual software configuration (3ds Max, FP & renderer versions used)? Thanks in advance.
I would suggest doing a quick test using Forest Tools and export all scattered geometry to instances. You can find it under Utilities - More ... - Forest Tools. For more information about it,
check our on-line reference guide. This way you can check if the problem happens during the Forest object conversion or not. If that renders fine, please follow our
Distributed Rendering issues (applicable for network rendering with backburner too) post to identify where the problem might be in your case.
Please feel free to
send us your scene and we'll have a look at it here. Ideally, would you mind to try to reproduce the problem with a minimal scene and send us such a scene?
Thanks in advance for any further comments on this issue you can share about it with us / our user community (in case some user(s) will run into similar troubles).
Best regards,