Thread: Render farm

Thanks for your advise.......I will do that.

think mental ray will also do distributed bucket rendering to spread one image across multiple pcs

ask whoever is supporting 3DS Max how to set up a render farm, or have a look their their forums. Much more likely to get a knowledgeable response from there.

i dont know anything about renderfarms, but from a logics point, if all are diferent builds you should have some problems setting them all to render 1 frame... how i think it works is that each node will render a diferent segment of the picture, but if all have diferent computing power it should be hard to sync all together, if it is possible you will always have to wait for the slowest node to finish its part... so essentially the only thing...

I have a small render farm set up and do exactly what you're proposing. You have two options; 1) Use Backburner. You're getting only one computer at a time because you have to set Split Scanlines (I think, I don't use the regular render engines) in the Render Settings to have multiple computers work on it at once. Make sure Use All Servers is selected in the Backburner dialog box. 2) Use vRay. vRay natively has multiple...