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Hi. I have done this before. You will need a software to capture the drone camera. In my case I used Nuke. Then 3DS Max to bring everything together. I used Nuke to capture the drone footage camera. Then I imported the Nuke camera into Max. I linked the Revit file into the Max file and used the drone video as an animated background in Max. I hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions

Thank you for your feedback The money isn't really an issue as VRay render nodes are cheap enough. It now easy to see that Autodesk are trying to drive us to cloud render. I had a look at it. It's not cheap

I have been a mental Ray user for years. But now that is not really an option as it has been removed from Max 2018. I have had a look at Arnold the new renderer. I like it. But I have a small render farm of 5 nodes and I would have to buy a version of arnold for each node which makes it too expensive. So i am now looking at Vray. Do i have to buy a version of VRay for each node or is there a version of vray for render slaves. Will VRay work with backburner? Thanks Dan

Thanks John, Is there any software you suggest

Thanks. That something I haven't thought of

I have some images to do for a solar farm. I'm just wondering would it be possible to look at glint and glare for a glint and glare study. My feeling is it isn't but I'd thought I'd throw it out there and see what people think.

Thanks Chris. I'll have to look into that Dan

I'm a mental ray user. I have a quick VRay question. The glare in MR is not physically correct, it is illustrative. I presume Vray glare is the same

I see it's now supported by Forest Pack pro. If it's faster, I'll have to try it. Has anybody tried it with Backburner?

If you want to send the files to a different manager you could copy the files over from one machine to another when you shut down 1 machine and run the manager on another. I have PC's running 24/7 and it has no effect on the machines. If you just want give the machines a chance to cool down you could set the week schedule for the machines so they stop rendering for a period of time and then start up again. When your machines stop rendering they will cool down. You should have your manager running on a machine thats not rendering. My render server is on 24/7 365 days a year. It nothing special as a machine. You are probably being a bit over cautious with your machines. There is no reason a Dell precision desktop can't stay on all the time. I've definitely had Dell precision desktops running for weeks with no negative impact on the machines

If you are using 3DS Max design have a look at some of the materials in civil view.

I do a lot of network rendering using backburner and I have always wondered why a frame rendered in backburner takes longer then the same frame rendering from inside max. so if I render 100 frames from inside max it will render much quicker then if I render the same frames using backburner. I am using Mental Ray as my renderer. When rendering with backburner after a few frames the rendering of each frame takes longer and longer. Which made me think there must be some sort of memory leak in Mental Ray. But if there was a memory leak in mental ray why does'nt it effect rendering from inside max. So this week I decided to try a 3rd party render. I downloaded RenderPal. This product I found more moody then Backburner to set up and I still could'nt get it to render on every node even though all the nodes are identical. It took 4 times the length of time to render each frame. So back to Back Burner. Just wondering if anybody else has come across these issues and if anybody has found a solution. Even if it is a third party solution

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I have a similar problem. I find all my machines slow down after a number of hours and I have to restart the server on each machine. They are running at a constant temp. I have not been able to find an answer so far

Thanks. Thats what I'm looking for. I was trying to think of the american for it and I thought boiler suit might work. Apologies to all the american if I got it wrong. Here I'd use the expression overalls