Cesar R Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 guys i want to use 4-5 computers form one room to render frames as I work on my laptop at my desk. I just installed max 7 and backburner. I havent read the help files yet, but I will this evening or so. Basically what I want to have happen is that when I hit the render button all 4-5 machines plus my laptop render the single frame and maybe process radiosity solutions.. is this possible? (I would like to so the same at home also) I somewhere say a demo from Brazil 1 or something in which the presented has severeal buckets going at once for his image.... Thank you ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upshot Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 I may be behind on the tech out there, but I belive a render farm can only do one frame per one machine... The big boys are doing layering with mutiple farms handling background, character 1, character 2, spaceship 2, etc. and then they blend each layer to get the final effect... Maybe there is something out there that will pull that off for you? maybe I'm not understanding the question... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dec Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Hi, Yes, it is possible. i have tried it on vray, my laptop rendered one frame of a scene with the help of my dual xeon Checkout distributed rendering on vray bucket mode Godbless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 MAX 7 has the render strips option which runs via backburner I believe. Don't think this is possible with radiosity. Brazil has a solution using the same renderstips technique (from what I know)... and the new beta of Vray has a complete distributed rendering solution which will divide the task on a per bucket basis, including the GI pass, in mental ray style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar R Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 Thanks guys ! chris , so what do i need to look up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 Well, I'm not sure I understand what you are looking for... but if you are just looking for MAX, I would say, look at the manual for the "Render Strips" thing. If you are a Vray user, and are lookign for a solution there, ask to be added to the beta list, or wait a bit until they release 1.5 Sorry... not sure that I understand your question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar R Posted October 26, 2004 Author Share Posted October 26, 2004 you actually did thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Lino Posted October 26, 2004 Share Posted October 26, 2004 finalRender has the option to render one image with a render farm...I think you do need to have the same render core in all of them (pentiums or AMDs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cesar R Posted October 27, 2004 Author Share Posted October 27, 2004 Thanks Fern. I'll look into that renderer also. BTW are you from Peru? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Lino Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 yes, I am from Peru and I am living now in Minnesota (too cold for me) where are you from Cesar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 I am not sure if this is what you mean - but it is possible to render just one frame using a farm with just max (no plugins). Use bucket rendering - I am sure if you look this up in the help menu it will explain how to use it. basically the farm will split the 1 image rendering it in 4 parts then it pieces them up together. I do this with viz 2005 (so I assume its in max as well)- only if the image is going to be big! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jucaro Posted October 27, 2004 Share Posted October 27, 2004 Cesar: Setting a netrender is quite easy, as long as you have a working TCP/IP network. Run the SERVER program on the machines that would be your render slaves, and the MANAGER on the machine where you will be working. Bucket rendering doesnt work in default MAX scanline or MAX Mental Ray (you need a standalone version of MR for this), use strip rendering instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now