Max 5 - Network Rendering?

[Pawz]

Does anyone here know how to set up network rendering? I've got a couple of machines that could help cut my rendering time down if I only knew how to get them to work!

Or is there somewhere I can look to find info about this?

thanks

~Pawz~

[blesson2k]

Firstly, when u r ready to render, fire up the backburner manager and server in the machines u r going to use (Server in the machines u want to render and manager in only one machine. u can also run the server in the machine in which u run the manager also). Then switch on the net render option in the render dialog and click on render. Now a new dialog should appear and click on connect in it. When connected it should show the name of the machine in which u have the manager running. select it and click on submit. Now the rendering should start in the machines in which the servers are running.

This is a really short and vague idea as its not possible to explain everything here.:)

Cheers

[RageCage]

let me also add that when you do a net render that you must render each frame to a .bmp and once the render is finished you have to put them together. also make sure the frames are in a public folder that all computers have access to. those two things caused me a lot of trouble in the past =p

[blesson2k]

Yep, not just bmp but any image sequence like targa, tiff, png, etc. I guess only renderman and mentalray have the ability to netrender avi files.

[lockdown2000]

ive already answered this and twice
http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2360&highlight=network

http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4392&highlight=network

two differnt threads.

[Zytrex]

Yeah, what they said. I prefer tiff files myself. If you save to tiff, make sure you enable its lossless compression. When rendering a sequence, a few hundred Kb off of the file sizes really adds up!

Also, all this stuff IS in the reference, you know.