Fume FX + vray = network rendering question

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Hello guys,

i am sure some of you are using Fume FX and i ve been wondering how you do your network rendering when computing animations?
On the Fume FX website its absolutelly unclear if we need to buy rendering licences along with Fume (or how many render licences are attached to FumeFX by default) so we can make use of our 12 node renderfarm.
Planning to use Bacburner to render the fume solution.

Any help woudl be highly appreciated!

Thank you!

M

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

perhaps using vray volumetric grid would get me around this safely ???

BTW:
we d love to use Phoenix FD, we actually bought the licence but we cant make it to work at all.
It always kills the vrl service somehow and ungly plays with the licences accross our machines.

[Paul Oblomov]

Phx doesn't need license for rendering.

[Morbid Angel]

Probably best to email them. You could also try volume grid too but there might be complications there... I found this doc, but it completely does not make sense! more render nodes cost less? and unlimited is $6000? Lol

https://www.afterworks.com/FumeFX/mray.asp?ID=16

For the phoenix, it should work just fine. Do you have the latest installer? Phoenix by default reads vray license server. And phoenix license should be installed in the vray dongle. So if vray works so should phoenix.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

ha, got the Phoenix working!!!
unsure what has changed in the latest vray but its running well on my machine ...
did not try the DR yet.

and i am seeing the nightly can render FumeFX sims
will give it a go...

thanks guys!