How-to DR using BB?

[Giovanni]

I thought one of the new features of RC4 (I ask Vlado, don't panic), was to be able to use DR in a backburner rendering.

I tried, checking the DR switch and launching the BB job normally, but the server that got the job rendered using only its local buckets...

Any ideas?

thank you

regards

Gio

[Da_elf]

your mistaken, DR/BB was introduced in rc5 and it doesnt work

[Parker1]

It is not RC4 or RC5 it is in the "1.5" FINAL...no longer a release candidate (RC). Saw it at SIG last week

[Da_elf]

parker1 did you have rc5?

[QuakeMarine1]

working like a charm

setup a normal DR job and send to BB using nodeA
go node A and edit
max8
\plugcfg\vray_dr.cfg
max9
C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\9 - 32bit\enu\plugcfg

add the IP from node B C D ...

start spawner B C D and happy rendering

[Da_elf]

there has to be something wrong with the windows settings then since it doesnt work here and for other people. the black bucket syndrome

[QuakeMarine1]

cant second that
all fine here
ok I did it just once for testing reasons but it was working @ the first try

[Da_elf]

very strange, this just wont work at all. its strange, usually im the one who always gets buggy features to work but this time its not working

[BELCORP_SAC]

Sorry obout the dumb question, what benefit do I get by DR a job by backburner?

Best regards

Onz

[instinct]

rendering a still on multiple machines to speed it up.

Regards,
Thorsten

[BELCORP_SAC]

But with DR only i can do that , why I would need BB? to program several stills in DR?

[dlparisi]

Sorry obout the dumb question, what benefit do I get by DR a job by backburner?

Best regards

Onz

Since DR used to only work from you workstation and not backburner, you'd have to manually queue up another render once one is finished. With DR working with BB no you could essentially send all of your stills to one server (even your same workstation) and have all of them render with DR one after another. Ideal for overnight renderings. Granted, you probably have to have more machines than you have images to render, otherwise I doubt there's any time savings other than just sending each image to a single machine.

[instinct]

well and you can keep on working locally instead of having your workstation blocked during the rendering...

[BELCORP_SAC]

Deleprasi

"Granted, you probably have to have more machines than you have images to render, otherwise I doubt there's any time savings other than just sending each image to a single machine."

Now I see , hahaha.

Muchas gracias

[QuakeMarine1]

very strange, this just wont work at all. its strange, usually im the one who always gets buggy features to work but this time its not working

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