Disable Distributed Rendering in 3dsmaxcmd.exe?

[Joelaff]

Hey, is there some switch we can pass to 3dsmaxcmd.exe that will disable distributed rendering when using it? I keep finding artists will leave it turned on and then send the job to the render farm. This leads to the nodes choking on multiple DR requests form every render node in the farm, etc.

We are net rendering with ButterflyNetRender, which uses 3dsmaxcmd.exe (not BackBurner).

[tashko.zashev]

Hi,

I don't think it is possible to change the DR settings without opening the scene file, but i will try something and if it works, i will update the post.

[Joelaff]

Thanks.

Would be a nice feature. Could be controlled by a command line switch, or an environment variable (the command line switch is better). Would like to be bale to set the render nodes to never do distributed when rendering from the command line.