V-Ray 4 Rhino Education - Render Nodes?

[Jack.Napier]

Hello @ all,

i would like to use V-Ray 4 Rhino for my Bachelor Project this Semester.

My question is:

Does the Education License support Swarm/ Distributed Rendering?
And when yes:
Are Render Nodes part of the EDU License, or will i have to purchase them seperately?

Kind regards
Jack

[ivan.slavchev]

1. There is no V-Ray 4 for Rhino yet, the latest major version is V-Ray 3.
2. You get 1 render node per V-Ray EDU. You cannot purchase additional render nodes separately.
3. As a workaround - you can rent commercial render node licenses for the period of time you need them. After that - export your scene in .vrscene format and you can render it command - line using Distributed rendering and V-Ray standalone.

[Jack.Napier]

Thanks for the reply.

1. my 4 is meant as "for". Sorry for the misleading.
2. Does that mean that i can use 1 additional Computer via Swarm?
3. Sounds not like an harmonic workflow. Maybe its better to save the money and invest in an additional Graphicscard then? Another GTX 1070 would speed up the render time.

I also read about the NV Link. Is it true that you con utilize the vram of both cards to one shared vram? For example: 1 GTX 1070 8GB vram; 2 GTX 1070 via NV Link 16GB vram ?

kind regards
Jack

[ivan.slavchev]

Thanks for the reply.

2. Does that mean that i can use 1 additional Computer via Swarm? -

No, the render node license will be engaged by the local machine

I also read about the NV Link. Is it true that you con utilize the vram of both cards to one shared vram? For example: 1 GTX 1070 8GB vram; 2 GTX 1070 via NV Link 16GB vram ?

Yes, you can use more than 1 card to render, just choose the devises you need from Extensions ->V-Ray->Tools->GPU devise selection