Render Farms 2005-04-07 - By Andy Jones
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We use BatchServe, but that's obviously not an option for multiple
applications. I recently heard about a program called drqueue
(www.drqueue.org), which is supposed to be pretty good. From what I
understand, it's like an open source rush. That's just from a few
minutes of looking at the web page though. Maybe if other people on the
list have used it, they can chime in as I'd be interested to hear
feedback about it.
-Andy
peterb wrote:
>
> Deadline seems very cool at first glance, and if you can afford it,
> you probably should.
>
> we're using smedge and it's become consistently better over the years.
> it supports all the softs you mention, and a bunch more.
> an unlimited license is 2000$ if Im not mistaken.
> but it needs some figuring out how to have it work happy with the
> different softwares and is not evolving that much anymore.
> the guys here weren't very please with how it supports max plugins...
> so they stick to maxnetrender.
>
>
> even more important, you might need to modify your habits a bit to
> make sure that your scenes are setup for network render (but that
> holds true for batch rendering too)
> Things like keeping all texture images in the database or in a
> properly shared location, using .map files is often a good idea,
> making sure all machines can find the simulation caches. If you
> haven't yet, you should really check out workgroups, especially to
> install addons, and make sure you have the same logins, the same users
> directory, the same drive mappings,.... on all machines. If you have
> modifications to your setenv.bat file you might need to propagate them
> to all machines.
> If not you'll have a hard time sorting problems out that are not
> directly render related.
>
> just some thoughts
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>
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm not intending to create a war here, but can you tell me which
> is for you the best render farm software...
> We are using Max, Maya, XSI, and after effects, and evaluating the
> posibility to buy a Digital Fusion also.
>
> Thanks in advanced,
> Nacho
>
> PD: Until now I only know deadline renderfarm, and Royal Render.
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