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Subject: Network Render?


Reddog9 ( ) posted Wed, 03 October 2007 at 5:56 PM · edited Sat, 16 November 2024 at 8:57 AM

Anyone no how to set this up?  I was going to work on a music video, and thought I'd pan some of the work load off on my lap top.  I've searched the Blender docs but have been unable to find it.  I'm sure I saw this listed as a Blender feature somewhere. 

Scott

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l3la ( ) posted Mon, 08 October 2007 at 1:27 AM

If you don't have time to learn to setup one of the network rendering systems you can just use the command line version of Blender to render a few frames on each computer and manually queue up more when each computer is done.

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Rendering_From_Command_Line

If you have a little money you should use this service:
http://www.respower.com/

Or if you have time you an learn to setup one of these systems:

http://www.blendernation.com/2006/12/13/more-distributed-rendering-options/


Reddog9 ( ) posted Mon, 08 October 2007 at 8:56 PM

Thanks for the info.  I looked back and apparently I was mistake, it's not a built in feature.  Bryce has an included app for rendering over a network which I've used before. 

I'll try to set one up. 

Red

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l3la ( ) posted Tue, 09 October 2007 at 6:11 PM

You're welcome. Just in case someone else wants to try the quick and easy way:

I used this type of command line before:

blender -b file.blend -o "C:RENDERSMOVIENAME" -F JPEG -s 001 -e 050 -a -x 1<br></br><br></br>and on the second computer:<br></br><br></br>blender -b file.blend -o "C:RENDERSMOVIENAME" -F JPEG -s 051 -e 100 -a -x 1<br></br><br></br>and so on depending on how many computers you have. <br></br>When one finishes just repeat the command with different frame numbers. <br></br>If one computer is slow you can just kill the process, re-assign the leftover frames and take whatever frames it has already done.


DramaKing ( ) posted Tue, 06 November 2007 at 5:30 PM · edited Tue, 06 November 2007 at 5:34 PM

I know this is an old thread, but I've started using a Blender version called verse-blender. It's listed on Blender.org in the Download section. Under Scene < ANIM, click Render Daemon. There's also a script called Farmerjoe that will also give net render capability. You'd have to do a web search for it, though.

It is better to do one thing well, than to do many things and excel at nothing.


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