iceboydarkb Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 I would like to set up in the office a small renderfarm. i would buy the hardware just for rendering and nothing else. -do we need a seperate 3dsmax license for every computer? -do we need a seperate full windows OS for every computer ? -how much GB on teh HDD does every computer need? the software and plugins that we would use: -3ds max -vray -Forest Pro -Phoenix FD(maybe) the reason why i am asking this today is because i think a lot has cahnged sine the last years. for example Vray doesnt have free nodes anymore. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amen Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 No Yes Similiar Ram to your workstation 200 gb ssd (loads a little faster) Textures and stuff on a Nas or file server. If you buy an update to Vray 3.0 you get 10 nodes and the update from 2.0 for 700 €. I think that is totally fair. For a rendernode I would go for a 2 processor system with at least 64 gb ram. There are a lot of threads about that. Bye, Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceboydarkb Posted March 18, 2015 Author Share Posted March 18, 2015 thank you for your post. so for example if someone would want to have a renderfarm with 100 nodes he would need to buy 100 windows OS's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris MacDonald Posted March 18, 2015 Share Posted March 18, 2015 thank you for your post. so for example if someone would want to have a renderfarm with 100 nodes he would need to buy 100 windows OS's? For that many you'd probably source an OEM copy/licence and just install that on loads of machines, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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