Vray render times CLIMBING way too high.

[Havoc]

I have some questions, ive been rendering out an animation about 800 frames and the first 50 or so frames took about 3 min per frame and then it has contined to increas to almost 2 hours per frame now, I am zooming in on a portion of the scene and I think this is the cause, there are no raytraced materials but there are v ray reflect and refract maps. Also I have GI on in an indoor scene.

I was wondering is there a way with vray advanced to use 2 computers that are on a lan and have them both use their power to compute each frame, instead of 1 doing odd numbers and the other doing even or something like that. The reason i dont want to do that is because 1 is less powerful than the other and it wouldnt render evenly. I want to know if and how to use both computers to render each and every frame together. Thanks

[percydaman]

yes you can, its called distributed rendering and the latest beta version of vray can do that. Not sure if the demo version supports it though...

[Dynedain]

you dont want to use multiple computers on one frame when doing an animation

letting the computers split the animation is fine - they won't divide it evenly anyways. Backburner will assign a new frame every time one finishes.

As for your zooming - thats why its taking longer, higher visible detail, higher quality in the lighting calculation phase.

If you are doing stills - you can use multiple machines for rendering a single frame. Its called distributed rendering (DR for short) and is only available in the advanced version of vray.

[Havoc]

thanks guys, i love this forum because for 1 people are so helpful and 2 they respond quickly. Thanks again!