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Hello, I dont want my work station to transfer the scene before she render each frame. because it does not change anything. and transferring the scene for no reason every time cost a lot of time. In another word I am rendering an animation. I am using DR. But I dont want my work station to transfer the scene before every frame. I meant is there any way to have it done? or rendering smoothly without transferring the scene to DR before it renders every frame. Please help some one Thanks! A

Hi Guys, I'm a newbie to network rendering & distribution rendering. I have worked alone for many years using 3DS Max & Vray, never really rendering anything more than 10-30 hours. Recently I joined a company with 5 people all using 3D Max & Vray. No-one in this company knows about distributed rendering or network rendering. I have used network rendering before to queue jobs over a weekend but I have never had a network of PC's to use for distributed rendering. I have been trying, using all the information on the net and with a little success. The only problem I find, is after I have clicked the distribute render button in vray and I've added the servers I want to use, It's not obvious until the render starts to render (after all the pre-processes) the image if these servers are going to help with the render. The 3 computers I have setup dist. rendering on. 1 is a dual core pentium, running windows 7 and max 2009 (64) 1 is a 4 core hyperthreading i7 920 running windows xp 64 & ax 2009 (64) 1 is my laptop that is running windows vista ultimate (32) Max 2009 (64) This occasionally works fine... but I really can't trust it to distribute render 4 jobs over the weekend as network renders. Sometimes all the computers work (usually the first job), and sometimes my poor laptop seems to be rendering 1 job all weekend with no help from other machines. Is there something I have overlooked? Am I trying the impossible with 3 different windows versions? Any tips would be greatly appreciated... many thanks Christian