Saving Irr Map on a Renderfarm

[RErender]

You can use my script http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...t=imap+control to send a job as 50's or whatever to backburner to render and save separate imaps then merge them together. Wrote a script to merge them too. Haven't tried them with RC2 though. might still work.

oh and the links on my site are broke but the ones in the thread work.

[Da_elf]

what you need is a DR central control panel which shows you which DR nodes are engaged and which are not, and it will also allow you to add or subtract nodes from the calculation while its in progress. this used to be possible back in the early 1.9x days but in order to get the DR more stable it was removed. I remember the days when DR was 1st introduced and me and egz were testing it via use of IP addresses and were DRing our computers across the atlantic

[panthon]

I remember the days when DR was 1st introduced and me and egz were testing it via use of IP addresses and were DRing our computers across the atlantic

That's pretty cool. Renderutopia.

[Da_elf]

well the faster the internet gets the more possible things like that are. i was on cable internet. not sure what he was on but i remember he said he was using his laptop wireless in his backyard or something. it was just a simple sphere or something like that (maybe a teapot was involved in the whole affair lol)

[percydaman]

You can use my script http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...t=imap+control to send a job as 50's or whatever to backburner to render and save separate imaps then merge them together. Wrote a script to merge them too. Haven't tried them with RC2 though. might still work.

oh and the links on my site are broke but the ones in the thread work.

Actually I'm glad you posted about the imap control script. We can't get it to work with RC2. You click the button and it immediately gives an error 'Vray not loaded. Please make vray the current renderer.

[RErender]

I was afraid of that, I'll see if I can fix it this evening.

[percydaman]

cool. im surprised nobody has brought it up yet.

[m_hinks]

This thread is interesting to me as I was trying to set off an animation of the Vray fur for grass yesturday.

I was trying to set off a render job to Backburner that was assigned to render only on one machine in the farm to multiframe add the IR map. Once that job was finished i had planned to have a render job sitting there waiting so when the IR map was made on one machine the farm could start using it and render the ani. BUT I found out that the first job to render only the IR map kept failing on the first frame. It was set to do every 10th frame, but kept going over and over on the first.

Is there a way to get the IR map, still only rendered on one machine, but within Backburner, so you can set up a dependincy ang get the render job to start automatically after the IR map is done?

Thanks