Using Backburner with VRay Distributed Rendering?

[ericbarlow21]

Hello

 

I was wondering if anyone had any info for me on my current situation:

 

I Bought 1 workstation and 4 render nodes from Boxx and this is what I am hoping to do:

 

If I have mulitple .max files ready to be rendered, I would like to send them all to the render nodes and have them que up one after another (which I believe should be done through Backburner?) but my problem is - what if I only have one file I would like rendered? How do I make Backburner utilize all 4 render nodes on that single file so that the single frame is completed faster? I have been told that Backburner can only assign one machine per frame...

 

I have tried VRay's Distributed rendering but as far as I know there is no ability to que and manage completed jobs and mainly that if I use VRays D.R., my workstation will not become free to continue working on as it will be rendering?

 

Is there a way to use these two programs together to solve our problem?

 

Can anyone offer any tips or advice? I had a tech from our software resellers come out to help us but he had no luck as well

 

Thanks,

 

Eric

[Ray]

You can use multiple computers to render one image by using backburner 'render strips' check box in the backburner dialog.

[Fernando Lino]

You'll be able do it with the RC4, it's one of new features in Vray!!!

[ericbarlow21]

Is there documentation on the new features of RC4 available online? I am a bit skeptical after all of the april fools VRay jokes :-D