Good alternative to RebusFarm

[Morne]

I love Ranch but I have some problems with them

You mean Rebus or Ranch?

[YoyoBoy]

Ranch. At least that was the case two or three months ago when I really tested everything thoroughly, and ended up with my current system.

[AndresAhumada]

Ranch. At least that was the case two or three months ago when I really tested everything thoroughly, and ended up with my current system.

But what you say is serious ... very serious.
As a system, that you pay, can not support the main functions of output?

That has no logic and fit today.

These systems are becoming disastrous.

I've been tempted to work with them https://garage.farm/

Someone knows?

[YoyoBoy]

Update: it seems they've changed things. It looks like you can render with the VRay Framebuffer now. You get some warnings about it, and a statement that Ranch needs the Max output enabled, but that the output from there will only be used as a dummy.

[YoyoBoy]

Though does the VRay framebuffer automatically save EXRs with any compression? I've been doing a lot of 4k work lately, so that's super important.

[stevesideas]

Yeah that's the thing about backburner, as you are cloning instances - you have to assign that manually.
That's why i stopped using BackBurner a LONG time ago and swapped to deadline. Especially now when they have per-demand pricing and cloud control - you have control of everything in one panel.

I've been thinking about moving to deadline for quite a while. I know it supports aftereffects too so probably time to do it. I don't suppose you know if it supports Terragen ?

[stevesideas]

As for my experience.

Never again REBUSfarm. A complete disaster, highly susceptible to failure. Especially the SYNC system.

It does not support the latest plugins.
Generally they prefer to blame scenes to blame the collapse its nodes.

I have emails to prove it.


Frames saved without the layers .... only one.
Frames blank or lack of frames showing that if they are all complete.

I've had good experiences with Rebus. Sounds like you had an unlucky set of projects with them. They refunded an entire animation for me when one part of the scene didn't render.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

I've been thinking about moving to deadline for quite a while. I know it supports aftereffects too so probably time to do it. I don't suppose you know if it supports Terragen ?

Actually it does.
http://docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/pro...-terragen.html

[JezUK]

I've had good experiences with Rebus. Sounds like you had an unlucky set of projects with them. They refunded an entire animation for me when one part of the scene didn't render.

I've had good and not so good experiences with Rebusfarm - best was they refunded me fully (no small amount) for a render which was taking forever and when I didn't expect any refund at all - the worst was when they didn't refund me at all when I truly believe they should have !

They are good, but I think that when we're under pressure, which is mostly when I would be using them, the support replies take too long which under such conditions only adds to the stress.

I'd give them a 9 out of 10 - they're not by any stretch of the imagination the worst out there.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

By the way recently i was comparing Google Cloud and Amazon Cloud, looks like Google has more interesting prices !

[JezUK]

By the way recently i was comparing Google Cloud and Amazon Cloud, looks like Google has more interesting prices !

Oleg,

Is that with 3DS Max ?

In the back of my mind I thought Google was for Maya and not Max ?

Thanks.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

Oleg,

Is that with 3DS Max ?

In the back of my mind I thought Google was for Maya and not Max ?

Thanks.

Why it can be for Maya or Max specifically ? They give you PC - you do what you want with it.

[JezUK]

Why it can be for Maya or Max specifically ? They give you PC - you do what you want with it.

I thought this is what you're talking about;

https://zyncrender.com/

[Oleg_Budeanu]

I thought this is what you're talking about;

https://zyncrender.com/

Oh i see.
I've found this artice wich can be quite handy http://www.zdnet.com/article/cloud-c...crosoft-azure/