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I just added another machine to my render farm, such as it is.
Client dual 2.8 zeon 2 gig ram wxp
slave 1 - amd 3200 1 gig ram
slave 2 - amd 3200 1 gig ram
I was playing around with lightmaps and DR and was able to get the 2 slaves to render the IR map and image correctly from the single saved lightmap.
First, I calculated the lightmap on the client with no DR and saved the lightmap to slave 1 in the MAX scene directory. Set lightmaps to use the saved map on the slave. Then I set slave 2's MAX configuration path to slave 1's MAX scene directory where the lightmap was saved and it worked like a charm.
I've been doing this with one slave but I was surprised when it worked with two. I don't see why it wouldn't work with 10 as long as it was set up the same way.
I just thought I would pass this along. Hopefully its not old news.
Tony
Client dual 2.8 zeon 2 gig ram wxp
slave 1 - amd 3200 1 gig ram
slave 2 - amd 3200 1 gig ram
I was playing around with lightmaps and DR and was able to get the 2 slaves to render the IR map and image correctly from the single saved lightmap.
First, I calculated the lightmap on the client with no DR and saved the lightmap to slave 1 in the MAX scene directory. Set lightmaps to use the saved map on the slave. Then I set slave 2's MAX configuration path to slave 1's MAX scene directory where the lightmap was saved and it worked like a charm.
I've been doing this with one slave but I was surprised when it worked with two. I don't see why it wouldn't work with 10 as long as it was set up the same way.
I just thought I would pass this along. Hopefully its not old news.
Tony
