Re: Render Farming Capabilities in CS3? 2004-02-12 - By pmiinalainen
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Those tools work almost always like that. They just delete the
temporary files after rendering.
To see what we mean, you have to create a batch que file in
rendering room. Open that in notepad and you can see that there is
start and end defined. To successfully implement network rendering,
you would have to map virtual drive for all of the used computers
with the same drive letter. i.e all would have G:\animation\ and the
textures would have to be also in shared directory or all maps
should be put into the shaders.
You could then pass the myanimation.btq file as parameter for
carrara like so: c:\programs files\eovia\carrara.exe myanimation.btq
Here's where the problems start. If you give that to smedge, it can
distribute the command to all clients in network, but it doesn't
understand the btq format. Thus it won't be able to split the btq
file into multiple pieces. For this, you will have to make a small
utility program. The program has to accept parameters from smedge.
These parameters will tell the utility how many pieces of the
animation should be created. For example, if you have 5 machines in
the network, your utility would split the btq-file into 5 pieces.
Each of them is otherwise similar, but the animation start and end
times are different - divided into 1/5, 2/5,...5/5. Smedge could
then pass one of these newly created btq files to each of the
computers.
For for more information, see
http://www.uberware.net/smedge2/index.shtml
petteri
--- In Carrara@(protected), Andrew Turner <turner410@(protected)> wrote:
> What if you only want to render a single file (animation)?
>
> From: "David Bell" <nordwind53@(protected)>
> Reply-To: Carrara@(protected)
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:39:23 -0500
> To: <Carrara@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: [Carrara] Render Farming Capabilities in CS3?
>
>
> I had something closer to the AfterEffects model, where the
elements of the
> render farm watch a specific folder for batch files to turn up,
then execute
> them, saving the final result back to the requesting machine. This
with a
> batchfile generator (to break down the master batch file into
elements,
> either individual frames or blocks of frames) would get you
there. Crude,
> but should work.
>
> Yours,
> David
> __ ____ ____
>
> Nordwind53@(protected)
> David E. Bell
> __ ____ ____
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: Andrew Turner
> To: Carrara@(protected)
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Carrara] Render Farming Capabilities in CS3?
>
>
> It would be interesting if the Batch rendering function could be
instructed
> to send frames to different computers.
>
> I wonder, though, how this could be efficient with a setup such
as mine -
> G5
> 2x2 256 and a G3 400 768... oh, and a PIII 1.2 380...
>
> Andrew
>
> From: "David Bell" <nordwind53@(protected)>
> Reply-To: Carrara@(protected)
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 07:42:09 -0500
> To: <Carrara@(protected)>
> Subject: Re: [Carrara] Render Farming Capabilities in CS3?
>
>
> In theory it is doable, for animations, Carrara has proved to be
a very
> adaptable tool. It is on my list of things to try when I have
spare time
> (stop laughing everybody, please, the last time I had spare time
was.....)
> This project requires some limited programming (mostly to build
the job
> stream) and a certain amount systems work. Fortunately much of
the support
> structure is available through OpenSource.
>
> Yours,
> David
> __ ____ ____
>
> Nordwind53@(protected)
> David E. Bell
> __ ____ ____
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: ccoles_avengers
> To: Carrara@(protected)
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:56 AM
> Subject: [Carrara] Render Farming Capabilities in CS3?
>
>
> I was just curious if CS3 supports render farming. I know it has
> multi-thread capabilities to take advantage of multiple
processors on
> a computer while rendering, but I couldn't find out any info in
the
> manual re: render farming to other PCs? Is this doable or is
this a
> CS4 wish list feature?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Claudia
> "Selocic"
> (a newbie)
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