DR Spawner - V-Ray/Rhino 5.0 64-bit

[rwitte]

Hello,
I'd like to know how to change the way DR Spawner functions on slave machines. A few questions: 1) Can it be set to open/start when a render request is received? 2) Can it be set to automatically run on start-up for a slave machine (as Rhino 4 / V-Ray allowed)? 3) How do I access these settings?
Thanks for your help,
Ron

[dkendig]

1. no, you would have to write some sort of additional script or something to accomplish that. It's not impossible, but it's not a feature we offer.
2. You can add the shortcut to the dr spawner to your startup menu. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/w...Windows-starts

[Micha_cg]

I'm not sure, but if I understand right some software tools allow to run a program as service. Maybe it could work for the spawner process.

Per search machine I found some free tools:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/runasservice/
http://runasservice.com/
http://serviceex.com/

http://www.iopus.com/guides/srvany.htm (based on standard MS tool)
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/8327...-as-a-service/ (***)

http://emutastic.emulation64.com/netosoft/projects.htm (-> LauncherService)

[rwitte]

Hi dkendig and Micha_cg,
Thanks for getting back to me about this. My apologies for the (very) delayed reply to you.
Regards,
Ron