Backburner benefits?

[Three D]

Hi.

 

Having just setup Vray DR for the first time I was wondering if somebody can tell me the benefits of using Backburner against not using Backburner. The few DR's I've done so far have worked well without Backburner so do I really need to use it? Thanks for your advice.

[Chad Warner]

VRay DR and backburner are two completely seperate applications. You'd use backburner for rendering an animation, or for rendering strips on a large image (which is essentially the same thing as DR), so you don't need backburner to use DR.

[squalo]

hello, backburner an DR have different objetives. backburner is used to have an organized Render list.

 

In my studio we use backburner to leave the computers with the list of jobs to render, and it let us assign priority or dependencies to the jobs, so, we can prepare many renders of the different proyect that we are working on, and leave backburner assign what computer do each one, and when someone leaves your workstation at night, simply run a backburner server, and if there is some render that haven´t started, backburner assign one to them.

backburner is specially usefull too, when you are working with some scene, and you need to do a test render, but in the midtime continuing workning on the file, so yo can send it to some other computer, an continue working on the file when its rendering.

 

and if, for some reason, the machine that was doing some render, crash, or something happens, backburner automaticaly send it to another PC.

 

in other way, vray DR is used for rendering only one frame using many computers to process, but has nothing to do with organizing your render queue.

 

 

I hope it helps. make any question if you have some doubt about it.

[Three D]

excellent. thanks guys. i'll give it a lash.