Anyone tried or is using RenderPal render manager?

[squeakybadger]

Looking into something to replace backburner as we are getting more and more nodes these days added to the farm.

I tried to wrangle getting deadline from the boss as I have used it before, but the per node price was too high (bossman, he say no!)

RenderPal looks to be an ok price for a site license, and it has python scripting built in so I can fiddle etc.

Any one using it, is it stable? does it make the tea?

Cheers!

-jaime

[joconnell]

It's rubbish. The developer doesn't use max so the support is bad. Go for deadline instead.

[squeakybadger]

It's rubbish. The developer doesn't use max so the support is bad. Go for deadline instead.

To the point.

Guess I'll have to head down the ol' streetcorner to get deadline

[Morbid Angel]

Its really worth the money. You can translate to your boss the time wasted on bb and other similar things into $ saved, Im sure he would see it differently then. Its the same argument I have every time some one posts about problems with bb.

[joconnell]

Deadline is very nice alright. For film jobs it's handy since it's got a new feature called draft to auto generate a quicktime of your render once it's finished, or if you're rendering to vrimg (which you still have to since exr output isn't totally perfect) you can automatically convert the rendered frame to an exr via vrimg2exr. You can get it to shut down the render node and wake on lan as it needs to render (to save power) and as often happens with command line renderers they're very leaky on memory so you can find your nodes paging to disk a lot. Deadline can restart every "n" frames to solve this.

Plus bloody nice people!

[Morbid Angel]

I think the qt generation is not a new feature. You cannot really compare bb to deadline, but I've said that before...many, many times.

[joconnell]

It's a thing called draft that they've got as a feature in their beta which can add a slate to the quicktime, make a film strip of a certain number of frames and so on.

http://www.thinkboxsoftware.com/news...-deadline.html

[Morbid Angel]

Im sure it doesn't make a great product any worse

[tiw]

I am also a strong advocate of Deadline. Very glad we made the switch.