use a Back burner to compute camfly prepass

[bziegler]

Hi,
Is there a trick to do the camera fly prepass using slaves with backburner !

I dind't find and i'm actually using the animation prepass mode to use my 30 Backbuner slaves
Looks stupid but can be faster than using a single slave

Any advice would be welcome

[Da_elf]

the "use camera path" just renders a single frame but calculates the irradiance map and lightcache for the whole camera move. if you want you can use the backburner to start a DR if thats ok for you. but otherwise BB wouldnt really be needed. I usually use that trick since it frees up my work computer to do other stuff while thats being calculated

[bziegler]

Would be really usefull to use 40 slaves that would generate each a solution for the image they render.
Then a fusioning tool would be used to merge the 40 solution in one for finalrendering !

That must be done for a perfect workflow !

So much power lost for prepass

[Da_elf]

do it as a DR

[bziegler]

We can't use DR !
I just can't remove slaves from BB.

We are about 10 graphists working on 5 different projects.
Would be a complete mess to use DR.

Merging prepass solution is something done from a long time on another renderers !
I guess Chaos could do that too with no problem

thanks for helping anyway

[Olli96]

Erm, you can do this. Check out the Irradiance Map Viewer, this tool allows you to merge the gi passes. There is also a nice script floating around where you can do this directly in max, i guess it was from rerender but cant remember, something like imap...

[bziegler]

Erm, you can do this. Check out the Irradiance Map Viewer, this tool allows you to merge the gi passes. There is also a nice script floating around where you can do this directly in max, i guess it was from rerender but cant remember, something like imap...

Haha !
great info, i'll look at it

Thanks

[Olli96]

Found it: http://varcht.net/index.php?option=c...d=13&Itemid=28