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Subject: an idea for a network rendering script.

Khai opened this issue on Apr 01, 2009 · 4 posts
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Khai ( ) posted Wed, 01 April 2009 at 10:14 AM · edited Tue, 19 November 2024 at 5:22 AM

ok, this may take some explaining.. please bear with me.

with PoserPro's network rendering, it works on full frames only. you can't send 1 image (frame) to mulitple nodes to render sections of the image to speed up one image.

so I was thinking,

what if you set up a script that would say split a render down into frames?

I'm thinking the script on frame one would use say a black plane to mask off the left half of the image. then on frame 2, the mask would flip and mask off the right side. - using the masks would also keep the image size constant over the renders.

then these could be sent to 2 nodes to render and could be recombined easily into the one image (the idea could be taken further with the masks to split down to say 4 or more sections).

could someone A: check my logic on this (it feels right, but that don't mean a thing) and B: program it if it does work?

Khai ( ) posted Fri, 03 April 2009 at 9:25 PM · edited Fri, 03 April 2009 at 9:25 PM

19 views and not even a 'that won't work!'?

I know I posted it on april 1st, but I was being serious. it's not a joke post!

nruddock ( ) posted Sat, 04 April 2009 at 5:03 AM · edited Sat, 04 April 2009 at 5:05 AM

I suspect that most (if not all) of the people of who do PoserPython don't have a render farm and/or more than one license, so beyond testing with a single node to see if there's a time saving, there's probably not much anyone can do as most of the programming effort for farming is in the scatter/gather.

How about you do a few trial renders to see if there is a time saving.

markschum ( ) posted Sat, 04 April 2009 at 10:31 AM

I dont have Poser pro or even two pc to test with. I did do a script once for a batch renderer, not very robust if Poser fails in a render though.  I could see adding a prop for a camera mask , with material zones to make opaque or transparent to set which quadrant was rendered.   Is there a poser pro python manual ? how do you access a remote renderer ?

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