Hi All just had an e.mail about this product https://www.poserproducts.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=61&products_id=193&osCsid=a5572555f9dbc774ad6fe8837965a0bc Does any one have any info or experience of it as to how good is it. Regards Keith

I ordered it, figured I'd try it out either today or tomorrow. It looks great, and they really seem to stand behind their product. I'll try to let you know how it goes as soon as I get a chance to test it.

Its bad news I'm afraid I just got an e.mail telling me its just for animation Well its back to Vue and the Render Farm which is a network with my main PC and laptop connected via a wireless router to help the job along

Surely you can`t use a network renderer to make a still image? You can render seperate parts on two computers and join them together in a paint program but you can do that with one computer and it is not the best way to make a picture.

Yeah, I do a lot of animation...that's why it's such a wonderful tool. Seems to work pretty well so far.

Shade 8's network grid server will render still's over a network.

Well, PoseNet actually renders image sequences...so the end result is a bunch of jpg's, tif's, png's...etc. But I think the issue is that it breaks up the work into frames and doles them out to different computers so that they are all working on their own individual frame. So, PoseNet cannot break up the work of rendering, say-one frame, amongst multiple computers. I have to say though, it's still one hell of a program.

"Surely you can`t use a network renderer to make a still image?" Some renderers, like Vray or MentalRay (and lots of others), can render a still image across a network easily, by automatically assigning buckets for each computer to process, then assembling all the buckets together as a final still image render on your host computer. So, yes, it's entirely within the capability of certain renderers. Also, I believe even Bryce has this ability if I remember correctly.

Anyone know what happened to poserproducts.com, the domain name is parked somewhere, and a Google for PoseNet cam up empty?

What is the product?  I tried the link you posted and the page times out.

Attached Link: Poser Network Rendering

I'm not saying you ca'nt be the little fairy type, that follows me around for good luck...

The topic of discussion for this thread is the product PoseNet.PY, formerly by poserproducts.com, but the domain name is no longer active. 

For a little more on what I'm doing way back here have a look to my more recent thread at the link attached?

Well when you reply to this age-old thread, it's bumped to the top. So I guess that's how Acadia found it. It's how I found it at least L

PoserProducts..wasn't that Sixus' site? They closed it down, I can't remember why.

Yes.  I hear Les...Bently, I think, also helped, and should be over at E-Frotier soon!

The person the script was written for is in my other thread.  He says he'll try to contact the author in Australia.

the URL's Poserproducts and Poserfreebies were sold to E-Frontier.
the Sixus1 store will be returning and relaunching at Sixus1media.com in a few weeks.

as to Pose-Net I don't think it is sold by Sixus1 anymore.

If you've got Poser 6 then you can split the rendering of a single frame picture over several machines with great ease.

Each machine needs Poser 6 and all of the elements present in the scene. Load the scene into each machine and use the Area Render option to select a different part of the scene on each computer.

Bring them back together and stitch together in any paintpackage.

I've used this method to split up very very long renders on a single machine into achievable time periods.

Bravo, and thank you for your suggestion, this was clutch!

I guess Poser Network Rendering function is even much, much closer than I'd hoped!

=  )

Hope it works for you. I used it to play about with very slow atmospheric effects, and everything came back together quite nicely.

Quote - Well when you reply to this age-old thread, it's bumped to the top. So I guess that's how Acadia found it. It's how I found it at least L

Thank you :)  Ditto.  I don't look at thread dates when I reply.

Quote - Acadia...How did you just find me this far back in Renderosity archives, this thread has been inactive since 2005, you were'nt a part of this thread?

I'm not saying you ca'nt be the little fairy type, that follows me around for good luck...

Please don't flatter yourself :)  My reply was directed to the original poster imagist, as it was he/she that posted the link I was referring to.**
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Just for any who might need to know. You can add Carrara5Pro to the list that network renders a single frame and imports poser files. A very cool thing.