1) Why does 3Delight displays the following message and adds a watermark on the image? This happens when the 3delight.config file doesn’t contain the "license.server” entry. Please modify that file as explained in Activating a License Key. This means that the license file (usually 3) What does the following message mean? 4) Why does 3Delight displays the following message and stops the render? If 'servername' is really the name of the machine entered in the 3delight.config file then probably the license server hasn’t been started. If servername is not the machine specified in the 5) What do these error messages mean when starting the license server? There is most likely another license server process already running on the machine. It needs to be stopped first. Some software firewalls can also cause that kind of error.3DL INFO: please complete the ’3delight.config’ file as explained in the License Server Guide
license.dat
) provided to the license server doesn’t contain any known license key. This happens if the license key line was not put in the license file. Please open the license file and paste the provided license key inside. If you don’t have a license key please refer to License Installation. licserver: 2017/10/10 19:57:08: Invalid license key, make sure the file is correctly formatted and saved in plain text.
licserver: 2017/10/10 19:57:08: no valid license keys found in license file ’/Applications/3Delight-13.0.10/license.dat’.
One common cause for this problem is a license.dat
file saved in a format other than plain text. Default saving modes for editors such as Word or Text Edit is ‘Rich Text’, which licserver
can’t read. To fix the problem, open the file and select ‘Plain Text’ as the file format when saving using the Save As menu.3DL SEVERE ERROR: Unable to contact license server (Connection refused)
3DL INFO: Make sure the license server is running on ’servername’3delight.config
file then it might mean that there is another 3delight.config file that is overriding the one containing the right servername. This might happen if there is, for example, another 3delight.config
file in user’s home directory. To assess this, one could set the DL_DUMP_DEFAULTS
environment variable and start a render; all loaded 3delight.config files will then be displayed.unable to bind TCP address
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