Does Vray DR send hidden layers to slaves?

[Roodogg]

Hi everyone.

 

 

I couldn't find this answer anywhere so apologies if it has been answered.

 

 

I wonder if anyone knows what V-Ray does with geometry on hidden layers when using distributed rendering?

 

 

Does it send the entire scene to the slaves, regardless of hidden layers or not? I ask because I want to know whether to use proxies more in my scene.

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[siddharthkolte]

As per what I know when running Distributed rendering the entire file is sent to the slave PC, regardless objects are hidden in it or not.

 

So I would suggest do not keep highres mesh hidden in your scene its a waste of space in terms of filesize.

 

It will not affect the render time only the loading time of the scene on the slave PC.

[Roodogg]

But I presume proxies and xrefs would not be referenced by the slaves if they are hidden in the master file?

[TomasEsperanza]

I can't tell you the answer, but it did occur to me that: You could do a test scene and monitor the memory usage between switching the proxies on/off.

 

 

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