steveblake Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Hi, can anyone confirm pricing for Max's mental ray on a renderfarm? Is it per node licensing for example? or should I expect to be buying licences for each render machine as with maya?? Thanks for this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdonay Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 i believe you can render on as many machines as want without buying any additional licenses, thats the way it works for Viz anyways. Good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveblake Posted July 13, 2006 Author Share Posted July 13, 2006 Yeah I had heard this about Vray too. Interesting, so does it really mean that in terms of costs at least I can simply buy max, plug into a renderfarm and go? (no need to have Max on each rendernode for example?) *smacks head* this really sounds too good to be true...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camby1298 Posted July 13, 2006 Share Posted July 13, 2006 Yea thats right, you only need one computer with the max software to act as the 'manager' of the farm. So if you think about, any small-large size farm can buy one Max license and have the capability of developing a render farm immediatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 You still need to install max on all computers, but you don't need to licence them, you won't be able to use those installations except as render nodes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveblake Posted July 14, 2006 Author Share Posted July 14, 2006 many thanks guys, kind of different to how I imagined. Can you recommend a specific piece of queue management software? I was looking through these just recently.. http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/10/0,1425,sz=1&i=104238,00.gif You still need to install max on all computers, but you don't need to licence them, you won't be able to use those installations except as render nodes... Do you know if this is the same for Vray also? Pricewise I read that you buy a single license. Thanks again for the help, and sorry for the amount of questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 You can probably use backburner for network rendering, it comes with Max, you can use it for Vray also... And yes 1 licence of Vray gives you unlimited network rendering and 10 computer Distributed rendering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verma Posted July 14, 2006 Share Posted July 14, 2006 Mental Ray with 3ds Max 8 gives you unlimited render nodes for animation and 8 distributed bucket nodes for still images. If you need more than 8 nodes for still images, you need to buy Mental Ray standalone licenses. Vray works the same but gives you 10 distributed nodes rather 8. I know why you say its too good to be true but it is and this feature was one of the biggest selling point of max against maya, but now they all are autodesk products....how things change. No need to buy 3rd party network rendering software as max comes with Backburner for it which also supports Combustion and Vray. Hope they will start offering backburner for maya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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