extremely urgent request for available DR render farm!!!

[flipside]

Hi,

I'm doing a large project, and I'm running into problems. It is an interior that consists of only light switches. So all walls, furniture etc are made up out of light switches.

Everything is being setup with vray proxies, and works quite well. Problem is that the material is glossy, and it needs to be very very realistic.

The scene is not finished yet, but I can estimate the final rendertime (60*40cm @ 200dpi, meaning 4724*3149px!!) at about two days with a dual xeon 2.8GHZ with 3GB of ram. The ram is very important, otherwise the lightcache calculation takes also 2 days instead of 30minutes...

So anyone has a renderfarm I can use from sunday afternoon/evening till monday at noon? It needs to do DR I only need one image. The files are pretty large (small max file, many vray proxies---unzipped anout 500MB). I also need to get the render back of course

For the rest there is not much special, some displacement for outside grass, color correct plugin, direct light, some vraylights etc...

You can reach me at info@aversis.be, I will be behind my desk the following 24 hours or more

[Clifton Santiago]

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...ic.php?t=16855



They are one of the few 64bitOS and 4 gb RAM render farms I've heard of. Maybe they can help....

By the way, love your basic vray tutorials. I have all my junior visualizers go through them. Cheers.

[jacksc02]

how did you go flipside? find a farm?

[flipside]

Yeah 2 people are trying to help me out. But it isn't easy, as DR doesn't seem to work very well. One started on 10 machines, now left with only one still running... The other one switched to stripe rendering instead of DR. I hope one of them makes it before tomorrow morning

I created a scene a bit too complex I think. The scene has a about 100.000 light switches in it All with glossy materials...

This project definatly convinced me it's better to spend money on many cpu's in one pc instead of many pc's with all one cpu.

Will post the image when it's done and published, it looks pretty cool I think. Altough with some more time, it could have look awesome!

[jacksc02]

good to hear.
We use DR here all the time, 10 nodes producing 1 image is a sweeeeeeet thing.

[flipside]

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=16855



They are one of the few 64bitOS and 4 gb RAM render farms I've heard of. Maybe they can help....

By the way, love your basic vray tutorials. I have all my junior visualizers go through them. Cheers.

Hehe, I secretly put it full of mistakes, so it gets widely spread, cancelling out all of the competition moehahaa!

[flipside]

And do you have problems with it? If yes, what kind of problems and can you solve them or do you also switch to other options?

[jacksc02]

no problems here. all nodes are xp64 2 gig ram amd dual cores

[jacksc02]

what problems are you having?

[flipside]

I'm not sure, it just doesn't work The spawners always stop. And corey had an issue with different colored buckets from different machines. Seems to be a known issue.

[jacksc02]

odd. never had any issues like that

[Clifton Santiago]

I find the DR nodes are most stable with vrayspawner running as a service.

[jacksc02]

clifton- when the spawner is running as a service does it load the vraydummy.max?

[Clifton Santiago]

I guess, but not sure because I keep the machines logged off unless there is a problem. It obviously opens a copy of max, but not sure if it opens that file specifically...

[jacksc02]

ok, im just trying to find out without having to do it myself.... yes im lazy
The problem with the spawner is that when it does load the vraydummy.max file good old max uses a fair chuck of ram and if im rendering something through backburner on the same render node I want it to be able to access all the ram possible