textures and materials

[glorybound]

Part of my workflow looks something like this:

1. create textures and store them locally (c:\working\materials\...
2. sync my local textures across all my devices

I have UNC off so, my path's are showing c:\working\materials\... I'm assuming my slaves are pulling the textures from their local drive. Am I correct? Is this good practice. I ask, because it's taking one of my slaves 20 minutes to load a 200MB HDRI. If it is pulling it locally then it seems like a long time.

Also, what is the protocol to render just the irradiance map? I would like to render the irradiance on my faster machine, and copy around to be used on the slaves.

Thanks

[Pixelcon]

Im working over a network with UNC and using 160mb hdri maps and it never takes them 20 mins to load the hdri. its quick. there must be more your problem...

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

if every comp takes files from local C drive, it shoudl be much quicker than fromt he network drive.
However i think the best practice is to have a network drive to store all the data and textures (of course it has to be a NAS solution at least and well backed up)