Hi,

In summary...

I have two computers running on a network comprising of a workstation (my normal everyday computer) and a Render computer. Both machines run Windows 7 64 bit and have 12 gigs of DDR3 Ram.

I have installed RenderCows and have successfully enabled both systems on RenderCows ready to go (all running in administrator mode). However, when I render my composition, apparently, since I am rendering on a network, HyperVue forces a switch from Hybrid 2.5 to Ray-tracing because I am using depth of field and motion blur effects. Obviously, the result of my render is painfully bad as ray-tracing negatively effects the image. It seems to force the switch whether I am rendering a still or an animation sequence and unfortunately, unless there are setting I have overlooked, the ray-tracing option is not acceptable quality wise.

According to e-on, there is no getting around this at this time. My question then is has anyone come up with a scenario that might yield better results? Should I render my animation on the network w/o Motion Blur and Depth of field and do fake versions of that later in After Effects?

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Best,

-Marshal

Did you try distributed rendering? I suspect it wouldn't work either, but haven't tried it myself. And yes, the only option would be to render depth passes for the dof, and velocity passes for the motion blur (provided you use 9.5, velocity passes are new to 9.5) and do all the blurring in after effect or other compositing software. Also, even if rendering both motion and dof blur on a single machine requires ray tracing. 2.5 is limited to one effect at a time.