HEY! Distribute Rendering buckets are NOT adaptive ?!

[GregoryVFX]

Distribute rendering buckets are not split and get smaller as they finish a bigger area and you are left waiting that one last bucket, with 105 ones sitting idle!

What is this?
Are we back to the '90s?
Or is there a setting I missed perhaps?

[dlparisi]

It never worked for distributed rendering unfortunately. Per https://www.chaos.com/blog/how-adapt...rays-rendering ...

This specific approach is currently only viable for local rendering and doesn’t apply to distributed rendering, as that requires a slightly different approach to ensure network traffic stays low.

[GregoryVFX]

It sucks all the same.
Hope this gets tweaked to work somehow...

[dlparisi]

Yeah, not having split buckets on dr really cuts into the advantage of adding a second machine. When you factor in the additional time to transfer the scene and start rendering on the second machine plus the inevitability that one bucket will take a lot longer than the others (usually some foliage) the time reduction is usually very minimal even for similar spec machines. Maybe if I was adding a lot of machines (at least more than one) dr might be worth it but as it stands right now it's not worth it imo.