Respower Render Farm

[Ernest Burden]

if a computer crashes, we've still got 599 others working on the job.

How about rendering Cinema4D scenes?

[Jeff Mottle]

How about rendering Cinema4D scenes?

This on their website: "ResPower has not had sufficient demand to justify incorporating CINEMA 4D rendering. "

Maybe you can ask them again? Not sure how many requests they have had lately.

[jackb602]

How about rendering Cinema4D scenes?

I could definitely use a reliable and powerful render farm for my Cinema4D work. I've been extremely happy with Renderking but Dann only has space for 4 subscribers per month, and 24 CPUs, so it would be great to have other options as well. Compared to other platforms I think Net Render licenses are extremely cheap, possibly as little as $400 for unlimited clients, but don't quote me on that. And from what I can tell, Net Render is quite reliable. I've never heard of any stability problems with it.

What would it take to get Cinema4D support at Respower?

Jack

[earlye]

What would it take to get Cinema4D support at Respower?

Again, straight from the horse's mouth

Unfortunately, Maxon's net render feature is insufficient for us for a variety of technical reasons that I won't go into for strategic reasons, so some effort is required on Maxon's part in addition to ResPower's to see C4D appear at our facility.

I actually contacted Maxon on several occasions to get their assistance in integrating C4D with ResPower, but things always seem to fall through the cracks. I'm still waiting on a demo CD I asked for 6 months ago

So, if you want to see C4D at ResPower, please make a concerted, organised effort to contact Maxon and push them to do whatever is necessary to add their render engine to our system. Some usefull comments to make:

1) As a paying customer, I can tell you that a service like ResPower's would be truly beneficial for your installed base.

2) I've used ResPower for my (Lightwave/3dStudio/Maya/Vue/mental ray) projects, and it was totally awesome - why don't you make sure they have C4D, because you're being left behind!

3) I can't stay in business and purchase upgrades if I do not have options when it comes time to crunch through big renders. I'll have to switch to something that ResPower supports the next time I upgrade, like 3dStudio or Lightwave.

I could probably brainstorm for a few hours on ideas for getting them to work with us, but I have rendering to do and computers to add. Cheers!

Early Ehlinger, CEO, ResPower - Soon-to-be-2.7 THz Render Farm. (That's right, Terahertz )

[jackb602]

So, if you want to see C4D at ResPower, please make a concerted, organised effort to contact Maxon and push them to do whatever is necessary to add their render engine to our system.

Consider it done. I just posted your reply over at the CGtalk Cinema 4D forum to see what kind of interest there is.

I'm surprised you haven't heard back from Maxon. Their support is generally great, and they tend to listen carefully to user suggestions. I'd recommend contacting them again.

I don't know what kind of technical problems you ran into, but Renderking is an existing render farm that is very reliable and has gotten me through several big jobs. Dann, the owner, has been very generous in the past helping others to get up to speed with Net Render, including potential competitors. You might want to try dropping him an e-mail as well.

Thanks,
Jack

[Jeff Mottle]

I also just emailed my contacts at MAXON to see what we can do about getting this underway. With C4D taking what I consider to be a pretty sizable chuck of the Arch Viz industry, hopefully they will want to make this move forwards.

[Ernest Burden]

What's interesting about the C4D netrender function is that it starts with the assumption that you are working off-site, in that it requires IP addressing. I have yet to set it up on my own machines, and I have an unlimited licence. So if a 'farm' had the C netrender client, I should be able to run on all available machines via MY licence, not theirs.

If I understood just how it was done then I would have set up my own mini-farm already, which I have not (waste of licence).

I would really like to see this idea advance. I can always buy a half-dozen more computers (for a one-man business)...but with an alternative, why?

[Frosty]

Ernest, I will be posting a tutorial shortly on image slicing with the new version of Cinema and NetRender.

[jackb602]

Thanks Frosty, I'll be looking forward to it.

Jack

[srek]

Unfortunately, Maxon's net render feature is insufficient for us for a variety of technical reasons that I won't go into for strategic reasons, so some effort is required on Maxon's part in addition to ResPower's to see C4D appear at our facility.

I actually contacted Maxon on several occasions to get their assistance in integrating C4D with ResPower, but things always seem to fall through the cracks. I'm still waiting on a demo CD I asked for 6 months ago

Hi Early,
please contact me on this
b_marl (at) maxon (dot) de
Cheers
Björn (Maxon QA)