nisus Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Hi all, Can anyone help me out setting up the network for distributed bucket rendering with MR? The max reference guide states: To obtain this, you must run the mental ray installer on all remote hosts, then configure and run the SPM license server. Instructions about how to do so are provided with the mental ray renderer sold by mental images. Unfortunately, I cannot find my way around the information. Where do I find that MR-installer? How do I run the SPM license server? Where the f**k do I find this information on the MR-webpage? rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voltaire_ira Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Hi all, Can anyone help me out setting up the network for distributed bucket rendering with MR? The max reference guide states: To obtain this, you must run the mental ray installer on all remote hosts, then configure and run the SPM license server. Instructions about how to do so are provided with the mental ray renderer sold by mental images. Unfortunately, I cannot find my way around the information. Where do I find that MR-installer? How do I run the SPM license server? Where the f**k do I find this information on the MR-webpage? rgds nisus i believe that you must first obtain a stand alone version of mental ray to run distributed bucketed render. but another solution for that would be running backburner set to render stripping of image rendered. so that each work station will be assigned a part of an image then mr would use its buckets to render the image. i've tried rendering a large image using backburner stripping and mr.it works, though not like bucket rendering, but something similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted September 29, 2004 Author Share Posted September 29, 2004 Hi voltaire, I don't quite follow. Imho every max6 licence has a MR license too, so I should be able to use it, not? Or is that not a stand-alone version? rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted September 29, 2004 Share Posted September 29, 2004 Hi Nisus, You need to purchase mental ray by itself if you want to use DBR. With a MAX 6 license that won't happen, because mental ray can only render inside of MAX. If you have more than 1 license of MAX, your only alternative is to use Network Render. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted September 30, 2004 Author Share Posted September 30, 2004 ow dear... this is awful... so even two max6 licencenses won't do DBR? horrible... if so, why should one use MR anyway??? rgds, nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 You can use Split Scanline within Backburner. The scanline doesn't DBR either. Why would you use it? I don't know. It raytraces superfast and produces nice images. It's yet another option for rendering, but it isn't a free one, and never was advertised as such. Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joske Posted September 30, 2004 Share Posted September 30, 2004 you might know this all ready, but just in case : if your pc has Hypertreading, you will have 2 buckets instead of one if you have a dual processor with HT you will have 4 buckets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted September 30, 2004 Author Share Posted September 30, 2004 Well honestly, I like MR a lot. I just thought that DBR was possible with two licenses of max6... anyway, we'll look into standalone licences and try the scanline region renderer (or whatever it's called) ,-) rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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