charlieinolas

As said, I'm not using Backburner...I'm using vray, and vrayspawner on the node.

Hi, Maybe someone could give me a hint. What setting is resposible for preventing my node (laptop) from going into sleep mode during rendering? I use vray - laptop has vrayspawner launched, connected via lan cable to deskop computer. Laptop (node) has sleep mode function turned on (let's say to 1hour. ) In my case, after 1hour, without touching mouse, or keyboard, laptop will go into sleep mode no matter if the rendering is still on and vrayspawner uses almost 100% of the proccessor power. I would like to leave sleep mode on and don't set it to 'never', as I ofter forget to turn my laptop off for the nighttime thanks

Hi, Is this possible to make vrayLight plane invisible, but only for vray sun so it could let through the light beams ? I want to put one plane behind the window but I want it to remain burnt white so it could let through sun beams at the same time. thanks!

As far as I understand correctly, I'd have to move all the textures files from disk C to some other partition, so I'd be able to map the network drive on the other computer. If it's C drive, it won't work for obvious reasons. But let's leave that - I just tried to do the same thing with backburner, this looks easier as I don't need to move the textures. The problem is that my laptop-server remains idle. I set up two comps on one cable, the Backburner Monitor sees them both. When I click render and send the job to network the window pops up. I type in the IP number of my manager, click connect and I can see both comps with green dot. But when I click 'submit' only the desktop renders... why so ? Any clue? 'Use all servers' is ticked. Backburner server is started on both computers.

Hi, Some things are not clear to me in this aspect. Is this possible so the laptop read all the textures directly from my desktop computer so I'd not have to copy all the textures to same folders and subfolders locations onto my laptop ? (Many files are also on separate partitions on my desktop so it gets really complicated if I'd want to make all same folders/drives on the laptop.) I tried to change all the files under 'asset tracking' to 'resolve path to unc location' but nothing happens. I must be doing something wrong. Could anyone help me out and give me a hint how to set it properly? thanks

Thanks Nicolas for the suggestions. I just didn't want to spend to much and I assumed not to pay more than ~800$ (remember, that here in Poland everything is more expensive - prices/earnings) So I was wondering what to buy for the same price. And for the price of 2x xeon 5670 I'm able to get: new i7 4770 processor, motherboard and ram only.. Rest parts are not so important as I can get them from my old computer (like psu i.e.).

It was cinebench 15. You're probably right that in most tasks i7 will be much faster, but on the other side I don't believe in upgrades that much. Graphics yes, Ram so so, but not processor. Usually if I bought a computer it had lasted on my desk for about 5 years and if I wanted to upgrade stgh to make it faster for renders, parts were incompatible or even that newer processor was faster than my old one, it was still way slower than those ones sold at the market at current time..That's just my thoughts. I also found this Looks like i7 is still almost 30% slower.

I just took a look at youtube and cinebench results and it seems that dual Xeon 5675 is way faster for rendering that even 4930 OC to 4ghz. I7 has about 10000points whereas xeon has 12500 points..

Numerobis, what processor are You using?

Thanks. To be honest, I don't believe in good processor upgrades to same motherboard after so many years. I change my computer each 5-6 years, and even if I buy sthg based on new technology, after that time if I find an used, best processor that would fit to my 5years old motherboard, it will be still very moderate in comparison with the newest ones. So upgrades no, overclocking neither. Overclock speeds up rendering for about 10-15% which means that You gain 15minutes if Your render lasts 100min. Speeding up 200% means stgh, rest is not worth even bothering. I'm not a gamer to fight for 3-4 frames /sec to be able to play more fluently. To answer You question - I get 24GB of ram in the used set for 800$. So it's rather not possible to get a new one with i7 4770k for this price, with same amout of memory. Processor + motherboard + Ram, would be around 1000$ I think (and I don't get the case, power supply and graphics within this price) Anyway, thanks for Your thoughts, I'll have in mind.

I'll also ask You for an advice. I'm planning to buy a pc that would replace my old phenom 945, and use it mainly for building architecture in Archicad and renderings in 3ds max (vray 3.x). I found some nice used workstations sets with 2x E5670(or 75) xeons and Quadro 4000 onboard for about 750-800$ and I'm now hestitating if I should go for this a bit oldish set, that will be no longer supported in vray, (no Avx so slower renders) or to go with I7 4770K i.e., overclock and achieve also nice results (quite comperable as it turned out, especially after looking into these numbers......... http://www.evermotion.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?106109-3DMAX-Vray-benchmark-test ). I'm also wondering if newer card like 960 will be fully supported by such older xeon? Which way would You go? thanks

What about 3ds max Viewport guys? Any of You has an idea if it's worth buying 960 than 750ti ? In the near future I'm planning to get some used workstation 2xe5675 xeon (mainly for Vray architecture rendering purposes) and there's a quadro 4000 in the set. Most people say that this card is useless especially in newer Max, so I'll probably end up selling it and buying some gaming card. Any idea if 750ti will be much slower than 960/970 in this field ? Or maybe I'll end up better if I buy quadro k620, there's supposed to be some kind of driver support on 3ds max ?

unfortunatelly there's still a problem I did it how it's described, and contrast and brightness stays the same, indeed, however there's a problem with color (attachement). I open exr, it asks me to assign a profile, I don't do anything. Then, I change under Color Settings, to Linear RGB. Then, I changed to 8bits, image looks almost the same but these colors.. I go back to color profile, and change to sRGB but it does nothing. Anyone has any clue what's going on here?

To anyone having the same problem - yes, it's possible. Here is the answer, I did it and it worked. http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=14&t=1033203http:// Thanks Stephan for Your time.

How should I do it then, to have all layers within the file? (sorry, haven't done that before...)