How do I make Vray to render great with Backburner?

[Kinetic99]

Hello and thanks for your time,

I just want to do a multiple rendered images (maybe 5) on one computer overnight and have them done for the morning. Does Backburner work with VRAY? Or is there another method in doing this?
K

[Morne]

Yes you can do that. There's a lot of info on the subject on the forum and all over the net. Just do a search

In a nutshell, on your computer start BB Monitor, BB Server and BB Monitor
The Monitor lets you see whats going on in the que
When you're ready to render, instead of clicking render in the render dialog, press the little dropdown arrow thingy next to the render button and select "Submit to Network Rendering"
Follow the steps in the screens that come up.

It will put that render 1st in the que. Then just submit the next render and so on. The BB Manager will send the job to the BB Server which in turn will launch its own instance of max (another max will open that will render so you can close max that you were sending the jobs from)

From the BB Monitor you can pause, kill etc the jobs
(When you pause, it will kill the current frame render, even if its a still) When you unpause it later, it will start that frame from the beginning

There's some other settings in BB to consider like timeouts etc but I don't have time now to go into it. Do a search

[Kinetic99]

many thanks.
This is what I needed to get me going.
I've done searches but they are convoluted with information and noise; and are not necessarily clean cut like your answer. But now I can filter my searches since I now know the general process.