Recommended Render Manager Software?

[MoonDoggie]

Deadline, love it.

[Streetwise]

Deadline, love it.

How many boxes/cores do you run with it?

[MoonDoggie]

50 Render Slaves at work. Each with 8-16 cores.

[Streetwise]

Update - I've set up my two 12-core boxes and tried Deadline. Since I do single-frame high res files, i was disappointed in Deadline's "Tiles" approach in that I could not use VR DR at all. The images ended up taking longer than expected. So I came up with a way to use good old Backburner, but with DR that uses both boxes. Seems to work great and much faster. I will say though that the the lead Deadline developer said that there is a hybrid approach that will allow me to do the same thing. I'm trying to figure that out and if it works, it would be nicer i'm sure. I do like the DL Manager as well as the "Sanity Check" before sending something to the queue. Very nice.

[pingus]

What about royal render ? nobody use it ? I'd like to have some views on it because i'm planning to buy it, deadline is so expensive (but so powerfull indeed)

[bigbossfr]

What about royal render ? nobody use it ? I'd like to have some views on it because i'm planning to buy it, deadline is so expensive (but so powerfull indeed)

Royalrender works very great with Vray for Maya, i have never used with 3ds.

[stefan]

I've heard good things about RR both in terms of software and support. Many on the XSI mailing list swear by it, it's also more affordable than Deadline, but does not support as many applications out of the box as deadline does as it seems (there is a list on their website). The important apps are there though, and it's a lot more affordable than Deadline too. I've been thinking in investing in RR too lately, and probably will.

[BKE]

Does anyone know if RoyalRender works well with VRay/Max large stills? Can you see real time results as the image renders? Thanks!

[etown]

Here's a vid of the new deadline features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-VeiCCoDBw