Using Distributed Rendering through Backburner

[tricky]

I need to nail this once and for all.

Render farm consists of 10+ machines, named NODE70....NODE80

NODE70 (192.168.0.70) is the machine we send our jobs to. On that machine, I have a vray_dr.cfg with something like the following content:-

192.168.0.181 0 20204
192.168.0.184 0 20204
192.168.0.70 0 20204
192.168.0.71 1 20204
192.168.0.72 1 20204
192.168.0.73 1 20204
192.168.0.74 1 20204
192.168.0.75 1 20204
192.168.0.76 1 20204
192.168.0.77 1 20204
192.168.0.78 1 20204
192.168.0.79 1 20204
192.168.0.80 1 20204

restart_slaves 1
list_in_scene 0
max_servers 0
use_local_machine 1
transfer_missing_assets 1
use_cached_assets 0
cache_limit_type 2
cache_limit 100.000000

The first two IP addresses are a couple of workstations that we sometimes use in a DR. The other IPs are some of the farm IP addresses. Note the value of '0' next to 192.168.0.70.

When I send the job from my workstation, where do I control the nodes that are part of the job: the hosts that are ticked on the workstation or the nodes that have a '1' next to them in the vray_dr.cfg file residing on NODE70?

[vlado]

It depends on whether the "Save servers in the scene" option in the V-Ray distributed rendering settings was enabled or not when you saved the file.

If this option was disabled, then the local vray_dr.cfg file is read on the backburner machine. Otherwise, the host list is taken from the scene file itself.

Best regards,
Vlado

[tricky]

It depends on whether the "Save servers in the scene" option in the V-Ray distributed rendering settings was enabled or not when you saved the file.

If this option was disabled, then the local vray_dr.cfg file is read on the backburner machine. Otherwise, the host list is taken from the scene file itself.

Best regards,
Vlado

Thanks vlado