Tim Saunders Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 i have been using vray free and love it. i'm trying to make my renders faster though and i think the distributed render feature in vray advanced will help a lot. does anyone know if the distributed rendering can only be utilized with machines that have a full licensed version of max installed? i couldn't find this on the chaos site. i know scanline has a network rendering option and you don't even need max installed on all the computers used, so you don't waste money on additional licenses. is vray like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 Max or Viz has to be installed on each "slave" machine but it doesn't need to be authorized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Saunders Posted November 1, 2005 Author Share Posted November 1, 2005 Really? how does that work? when you run the installation disk, and it comes to the authorizing portion, you just exit the installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 If you are just installing max then you dont get asked to authorize it, you only have to authorize it if you try and open the program on that machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Saunders Posted November 1, 2005 Author Share Posted November 1, 2005 your right i remember. it's been a while since i have had to do an install. that's sweet. i guess that will speed up my dicision on my purchase. thanks craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anvaraziz Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 first go through the max help file bout network rendering setup... after u finish network setup with universal naming, then u need mapp those drives contains ur textures and all... so that all machines can acces the same drive. install max and v-ray on both machines, now u need run vrayspawner60.exe from slave machine located on max root dir. go to v-ray DR settings in ur workstation, add the ip address of that slave machine ,, done,, rock it baby,, DR is very very helpful for still rendering,,, remember one thing , ur saved ir maps, lightcach , textures and all stuffs should be accesible from both machines,,,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Saunders Posted November 2, 2005 Author Share Posted November 2, 2005 on the textures note. I would say about 70 percent of my textures are saved on the network so accessin them wouldn't be any problem. however, the other 30 percent of the time i will use some variation of the stock archmat materials in the viz files. when i instal viz locally on each cpu, won;t it direct to the same archmad folder locally as well since it has had viz installed? or do I actually need to put that folder on the network as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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