Render slave in different location

[Guest]

Hello everyone!

I am a freelance 3d-artist currently working from home, but thinking about moving out to an office space. That means buying an additional computer to install in the work space. Now, I would still like to utilize my home computer too, is there a way with distributed rendering or any other solution to use my home machine as a slave? Clearly I need a render node license, but is this even possible to do?

3ds max 2018 vray 3.6.

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Best regards / Olof

[notamondayfan]

I'm sure you could do it with a VPN. I think I had a bit of success doing something similar with Hamachi, but the bottle neck was the upload speed to the node. I can't remember if this was with DR or not, but I imagine your internet speed is going to make this nearly pointless.

Alternatively, you could look at simply uploading to something like Dropbox, and using a command prompt script to render an uploaded file. No DR, and you're limited to your internet speed, but it would work. Bit old school mind!

[Guest]

Thank you for your reply!

I have never tried a VPN, but as you point out, the upload speed (currently I have 100/100 mbit) means 10 mb/s, and since most of my scenes are at least 2 gb it's not very viable.

The second option would only really work for one machine at a time, am I right? What I would like is to be able to render the same scene on both machines simultaniously.

I have tried google searching for this, and there seems to be very little interest in rendering on multiple machines located on different networks, overall. I wonder why, as it seems very useful, at least to me.