RebusFarm

[glorybound]

I am using RebusFarm and I am impressed! I rendered a 6000 X 3000 360 and it rendered in about 8 minutes ($11.00). I am in love, but the "Checking" process is taking about 7 minutes. So, each time I correct an error I have to wait the 7 minutes again. One time is do-able, but 5-6 times become crazy. The question is, how long is it taking your typical scene to check? Is this expected, or is it my scene? Since it is my first experience, I don't know what to expect.

[glorybound]

4 - 6000X3000 360's, as clean as it gets, in an hour. I am in love!

[rivoli]

usually is a quick process, but I guess it may depend on the particular scene. what it may take a bit is collecting and compressing all the textures in scene, depending on how many are used and how big they are.

[glorybound]

The first time it was fast lighting fast, but it showed an error on some animation keys. I tried to use their solution, but MAX froze, so I killed it. I ended up using a command line, which worked, but the check process got dead slow afterwards. I rebooted my PC and MAX, but still slow. It might take a few more projects to see if the check process is slow, or if it was a file issue.

[QuakeMarine1]

the smartcheck should be fast as hell since it not test about textures
if you "send" the Farminizer du a full scene test and export the job
it can take long if your job is very large (scene save, compress, detect keyframes..) aswell if you use tons of textures speard over your network

7min is long indeed - it maybe help to resource collect all job to your local drive