Neelu Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Hi everyone, I understand that one license of vray should allow for 10 computers to help with DR, how do I run vray for all the server computers? Do I run the exe file? what is it called in my 3ds max 8 folder? Does that mean I have to save that file on a common network folder instead of the client computer's C drive? I have Vray Adv 1.47.03 Thanks for your help in advance! Neelu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfa2 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 This has everything you need to know. It is very much worth the time to figure out. http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/VRayHelp150beta/distributed_rendering.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkane Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Why don't you use backburner? What is the difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfa2 Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Why don't you backburner? what is the difference? Backburner is useful, but IMO DR is better for single image renderings and backburner obviously for animations. DR uses up to 10 computers per licence to render right on your screen, you literally watch it develop right in front of your eyes with 10...15...20 buckets all going at once. While backburner, you have to submit the job, assign the computers, tell it the file name and where to save it, and then wait for the whole thing to get done and then look at it. DR is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkane Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 Backburner is useful, but IMO DR is better for single image renderings and backburner obviously for animations. DR uses up to 10 computers per licence to render right on your screen, you literally watch it develop right in front of your eyes with 10...15...20 buckets all going at once. While backburner, you have to submit the job, assign the computers, tell it the file name and where to save it, and then wait for the whole thing to get done and then look at it. DR is awesome. yes you are right, I was just reading the tutorial... " Rendering an animation sequence in distributed rendering mode is not supported. Use distributed rendering only for single frames." Great, it's like dual core pc, actually more cores I should say!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkane Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 This has everything you need to know. It is very much worth the time to figure out. http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/VRayHelp150beta/distributed_rendering.htm Thanks for the tuto.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volkane Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 How do you get 20 buckets if you have one license? I mean if a license for 10 buckets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 multiple processors, cores, hyperthreading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neelu Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 So I have vray spawner running on both computers in the network. (I have two right now) and I added the servers to the DR Settings window. My network setup seems to be fine. But my now my Vray log txt says the Render hosts failed and it lists their IP addresses. I really don't know what I could be doing wrong! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfa2 Posted June 15, 2006 Share Posted June 15, 2006 So I have vray spawner running on both computers in the network. (I have two right now) and I added the servers to the DR Settings window. My network setup seems to be fine. But my now my Vray log txt says the Render hosts failed and it lists their IP addresses. I really don't know what I could be doing wrong! Trouble shooting this can get tricky. Does your computer have read and write permission on both of your network computers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neelu Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 Actually, I have two computers altogether on the network. Mine(the client) and just another one. (small business! ) I am pretty sure there is read and write permission on the autodesk folders,(3dsmax8 root folder which contain the vray files) on both computers. They are shared, is what I mean. When I run vrayspawner60.exe on the one server, there is a vraydummy.max file running, so I know the server is working. But when I add the one server name to the DR settings list, the vray log still seems to give a warning, saying Render host (IP address) failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neelu Posted June 15, 2006 Author Share Posted June 15, 2006 I just wanted to add that the Increment to Save option is also turned off in the preference settings dialog of Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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