VRay Swarm for 3DS Max

[Macker]

Hey guys,

1 - Is VRay Swarm coming to 3DS max?

2 - My limited understanding of it is that I'd be able to utilise (hopefully all of) the PC's in our office for rendering - but that it currently isn't available for max?

3 - (Hypothetically) Will these PC's still render even if their specs aren't amazing? It isn't uncommon for me to have a scene that requires 40+Gb RAM. Would this run on say a machine with 8Gb? Does the swarm take care of this?

[super gnu]

good questions. i was wondering the same thing.

[Macker]

Still wondering. Do I need to take out a support ticket or something?

[Macker]

What's happened to these forums?

[^Lele^]

[QUOTE=Macker;n1030341]Hey guys,

1 - Is VRay Swarm coming to 3DS max?[quote]
No idea.

2 - My limited understanding of it is that I'd be able to utilise (hopefully all of) the PC's in our office for rendering - but that it currently isn't available for max?

You'll need to have a pc ready to accept an incoming connection of that type, and the subsequent work. Or it'd be a hack on said machine.

3 - (Hypothetically) Will these PC's still render even if their specs aren't amazing? It isn't uncommon for me to have a scene that requires 40+Gb RAM. Would this run on say a machine with 8Gb? Does the swarm take care of this?

No it won't. It's a simpler approach to DR, not magic.

GTC is on, and most of the people active on these forums are busy and on a different timezone than yours, with slightly different day-to-day priorities for a couple of weeks.

[Macker]

So it offers no tangible benefits to DR then (if it were to port to max)?

[dean_dmoo]

Well no rendernode licenses needed. Atleast thats the case for sketchup.

[ivan.slavchev]

SWARM is just a DR manager that adds a GUI and some other automation, so you'd still need licenses to render on render nodes etc.
It's not in 3dsMax, because unlike other V-Ray versions where a .vrscene file is exported and rendered with V-Ray standalone on the slave machine, V-Ray in 3dsMax renders via 3dsmax.exe on the render slaves.
You can use the usual 3dsMax distributer rendering setup - it will be no less effective than a DR setup with another V-Ray version, regardless if SWARM is used or not.

[dean_dmoo]

My mistake, didn't realise you needed RN's for the swarm...*groan*

[Dman3d]

It would be handy to do this with MAX/Deadline. I want to setup a portion of our farm as one giant DR group that will auto divide itself to a min/max. So when only one person is rendering all the machines are working on it, when 10 people are it divides by 10, or to whatever the min/max limit is. Without the user needing to intervene or set any other limit than min/max. Perhaps that can be an admin override, min of 3 machines (or cpus) and max of 20 or something like that.