distributed render tool/script

[Three D]

hi.

perhaps somebody can help me. i found this wonderful tool/script a while back which allowed me to start and stop the vrayspawner on all the pc's on my render farm from an menu within my 3ds max.. it also allowed vnc access to all pc's amongst other things. now that i'm on 3ds max 2010 i'd love to install it again but i cannot remember where i found it. does anybody know of the tool i'm talking about and where it can be found.

thanks.

[Dave Buchhofer]

There was this one that i'd started to throw into max, which might be the one you're thinking of, http://buchhofer.com/?p=128 and there was this older one http://buchhofer.com/?p=4 done with some vbscript

 

theres been people having problems with both versions recently, and i know a much easier way of handling the back end stuff, but haven't had a chance to "clean" them up for general release again yet

[danb4026]

Dave, let us know when you come out with a new working version. I would love to give it a try.

[Three D]

ServerUtilities is the one Dave. It was a really handy tool. If you get a chance to do a 2010 version I'd be grateful if you could share it.

 

Thanks.

[Dave Buchhofer]

That one should work fine for 2010, it just relys on the service, I think the main problem i was having with it, was that it would choke when i was trying to restart say 5+ machines at once.. Going 1 at a time works fine, its a bit slower, but still beats vnc'ing, or remote services.msc'ing them.

[Three D]

thanks dave but what i used it for most was stopping and restarting Vrayspawner2009 but now I need to stop/restart Vrayspawner2010. thanks again.

[Dave Buchhofer]

They changed the name of the service again? Tsk tsk.

 

Ok, I'll add that in and re-upload when i get a chance.

 

until then, if you wish, you can add it in by editing the line 251:

dropDownList ddl_service "Service" width:250 height:40 items:#("VRaySpawner 2009","VRaySpawner 90","BACKBURNER_SRV_200","winvnc","mi-raysat_3dsMax2008_32","uvnc_service")

 

to be:

dropDownList ddl_service "Service" width:250 height:40 items:#("VRaySpawner 2010","VRaySpawner 2009","VRaySpawner 90","BACKBURNER_SRV_200","winvnc","mi-raysat_3dsMax2008_32","uvnc_service")

[Three D]

perfect dave thank you. i tried editing it myself but it didn't work. again, very much appreciated dave.

[danb4026]

Dave, will the script downloaded from the link above work on Max 2009 x64? From the code it looks like its for 2008 x32.

[Dave Buchhofer]

Here's a little update to that tool, main changes:

 

http://buchhofer.com/upload/files/Scripts/ServerUtilities_v0-75_06-18-09.zip

-- .75 - added vrayRT service
-- .75 - convert to simpler doscommand style execution
-- .75 - added an optional pause to the end of the commandline based tools
-- .75 - fixed the invert button in server selection
-- .75 - prints the commandline to the listener
-- .75 - Added installer and uninstaller

[danb4026]

Does it work with 2010? What do you use as a Domain for login? Is it your IP address?

[Dave Buchhofer]

I'm assuming you're not in a corporate envieronment Hmm, i guess i should add a checkbox to not require a login..

 

you can try just having a login / pass without the domain and it should probably work, if that doesn't work let me know, or toss me an email at dbuchhofer at gmail.com and we can work out what changes are needed to make it useful for everyone.

 

As to 2010, there really isn't a reason for it not to work in any specific version of max, its really just an interface surrounding a few dos commands

[Dave Buchhofer]

Aaand one more post on this.. just threw it up on scriptspot to have a centralized place for it, soo.. http://scriptspot.com/3ds-max/server-utilities