draught opened this issue on Apr 13, 2005 ยท 14 posts
operaguy posted Wed, 13 April 2005 at 3:56 PM
Congratulations on your project! I guess it's time to push this topic around again.... No native renerfarm function thru Poser6. My personal option: Each cut in my film is a pz3. That means some are 1-2 seconds, some are 5 seconds, some are 98 seconds, etc. I use "RenderCondo" idea. Any number of CPUs (you can employ KVM switch, don't need monitor on all of them)and feed them each their own pz3 to chew on. Render out to individ. frames, of course. Manage the files on an excel spreadsheet. Systematic naming/numbering scheme for frames. Each computer must have IDENTICAL stripped-down runtime and a seat of Poser ($99). Frankly, while some might see this as a kludge, I view it as workable. I am sure others will soon post on the viability of RMan variations, VUE Infinite, and just going up to Max or Maya or Lightwave, etc. Or Shade! Hardware? Always a cost/performance tradeoff. If not going superhighend on each, how about AMD 3200 or such (make sure it has 1024 L2Cache) and at least 1Gig RAM, better 1.5 and FAST HD. ::::: Opera :::::