In terms of a vpn nic (or a more advanced firewall router device that handles VPN) that would only help, I think, if you could mirror that setup at the ec2 side, somehow... don't know enough about ec2 options to comment there?

Hi Syrus_BD

Netbios is something different. Legacy ms windows protocol, principally.

What millighost was referring to was tcpip broadcast.

I think investigating that gamer tunnel software might be a good bet, over the built in Windows VPN.

If I have a bit more time next week, I will maybe try putting the Win QM and FFRender onto one of my remote servers and have a go at this myself.

Trouble is that any remote kit I have available to test this with is all running either Win 2008 or Linux. But my home workstation is mac.

Not sure if QM works across different operating systems?

Quote - the wind force seems counter-intuitive. 

how do you increase wind intensity on cloths?

Yeah, no idea how this will work as yet. It just seems worth experimenting with... maybe more for if I wanted to try animating a sailing ship like this I guess.

Quote - Perhaps these may be of some use.

 http://www.sharecg.com/v/25282/View/5/3D-Model/Wakes 

Aha - thanks lmk :-) Those look of definite use.

Been playing around with the Create->Wave option too... and will continue to do so.

But I suspect those obj model wakes and bow waves may get me a result slightly quicker for now... I think I will go with using those just now and concentrate on figuring out how to apply a shader to them.

Anyone any suggestions or pointers on that front would be greatly appreciated?

On the flat ground plane that I'm using as the main water surface I'm using the shader that Bagginsbill describes in this thread:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2767844

Quote - the Wavecutter set comes with a wake prop 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/in-wavecutter/77753

beautiful skydomes, too.

Thanks MistyLaraPrincess... and that's a nice looking ship too ;-)

It's this HMS Victory model I'm using currently:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=91348

Thought I might try turning the sails into dynamic cloth and blowing some Poser wind at them... once I resolve how to make the bow wave.

Thanks PhilC

That certainly sounds like it would do the trick :-)

I remember seeing that menu option now and wondering what it did. But I've obviously selectively blanked it ever since.

I will have a play with using wave magnets later today to see what they do...

Quote - Brave souls? If I can do it, any monkey can :P.

Laurie

Any monkey you say?

Will give it a go...

Thank you Snarlygribbly :-)

My five month old just learned to blow raspberries ;-) Already growing up so quickly...

I hadn't drawn anything on paper for years, until I recently started getting into 3d modelling a bit... started sketching out ideas for that before actually trying to model. I still find it much easier to organise my visual imagination using pencil on paper...

Just make sure you don't / can't lose or forget your encryption keys... where do you back those up is the question to ask yourself? ;-)

Covering yourself from multiple angles is best... try to mitigate against "Sod's Law" the best you can, when it comes to trying to cover yourself against data loss.

Interesting point about the multicore rendering...

There are plenty of cloud based render farms for the likes of Maya, 3ds Max and Cinema4d...

Vue have recently released a Linux version of their network rendering system... I'm guessing because this is sought after by render farm providers and bigger CGI production companies... so who knows, it may be only a matter of time before Poser follows suite?

I could imagine that if the consumer cost could be kept low enough (e.g. by large membership community sites negotiating bulk pricing from render farm providers) then some kind of pay as you go cloud rendering, of more resource intensive Poser scenes and animations, could prove quite attractive to a lot of professional and hobbyist Poser users alike...

That Gamer's Internet Tunnel looks like a good bet. Complicated firewall config otherwise... which is only possible with higher end network kit too often.

If you needed to try to figure out what UDP ports (etc) may be in use (e.g. if this isn't in fact documented somewhere by SM) then you could try running Queue Manager between two machines on your LAN and hook up a packet sniffer, such as Ethereal (open source)...

http://www.ethereal.com

...there's some learning curve in doing that of course, if it's not something you already know about :-)

Quote - My wish for PoserPro: A Linux based QueueManager with text-based screen interface running on a Linux core with just the minimum facilities. No bit of memory spent on anything but rendering, rendering and rendering. A new life for the old desktop now dusting away in my attic, or as a live system-CD on which to boot on an unused laptop.

Second that ;-)

Hi Syrus_BD. This sounds like an interesting project for sure.

I guess the first thing I'd suspect would be firewall / router related issues. Perhaps the necessary ports are being blocked or not being forwarded?

Depending on how your VPN is set up, port blocking / or  non-forwarding of ports on inbound / outbound traffic can still occur... even with the tunnelling. What kind of VPN are you using?

Further to that, perhaps bandwidth?

Maybe the queue manager needs a minimum bandwidth for its network communication to work?

Those are great - thanks Acadia :-)

Already got Rose's Willow outfit in fact... from looking for a V4 cloak for a previous idea.

But hadn't seen those others.

The "Duchesse de Collete" conforming dress set by Jan019 in particular looks great for what I was trying to do just now...

...looks like the right kind of period / style for 1700s as far as I can tell... although doesn't need to be totally historically accurate really - an approximation is good enough for me!

Cool - loads of great suggestions ;-)

Like that Francoise Philippe costume for M4... thanks Lisalamadrid.  I will wishlist for now also :-)

That Marie-Louise costume, also by neftis3d, just went on sale in fact at daz, so I've grabbed that for starters...

Will be interesting to see how it works with V4WM.

I was pretty much unaware of both poserworld.com and my-poser.com resources in fact... so good to know.

Pinned that Sense and Sensibility range to my wishlist at Daz also - many thanks Lyrra... and I'll certainly look out for your new day dress for this too.