Batch/queued rendering

[Carrotious]

Hi all, may be a bit of a dense question but i'm finding it hard to figure out how to queue multiple reders up to run overnight. I have multiple scenes with multiple cameras and would like to queue up diffferent renders and set them going when i walk out the door. I only have one machine so its not about network rendering jsut queueing.

 

thanks for help...

[AJLynn]

Certain Max version... I think it's Max 8 and 9 and Viz 2007 - have a Batch Render function that I've used. It's pretty easy to set up and lets you work from scene state saves and render presets that you've saved out. For other versions, you can use Backburner as a render queuer - just have your computer running the server, manager and client, and Net Render your jobs - Backburner will queue them and use your one computer as the only client.

[Carrotious]

Ah ok, back burner works with vray? I have 1.5 rc2 and max 8.

[FancyPants]

Also, if you don't want to mess with backburner, or the batch renderer; there is a down and dirty way to render multiple cameras. just animate a free camera frame to frame to the positions of your chosen views and render a sequence.

[devres]

How many computers? Qube from PipelineFX seems pretty sweet... much better render management that anything I've seen.

 

Requires at least two computers though, one of which shouldn't render which is used as the manager.

 

The software is usually used in farms but can be used in any size environment.