aditional add server to DR

[jonnybefree]

dond't know if it's possible or not, but would be very nice if you can additional add server to an DR rendering.
at the moment i'am rendering 2 projects with DR, which started parallel. one of them are allready finished, the second needs still alot of time, so that i can add the finished computers to the job who is still rendering.

Best regards
Jonas

[vlado]

Yes, this has been a long-standing request; hopefully it is coming soon.

Best regards,
Vlado

[natty]

This is my biggest wish to have more control over DR, although it works great at the mo my gripe is DR doesnt release the machines that have finished there buckets.

[jacksc02]

yeah that is a major issues we have with DR too, we are currently writing a "kill" script for max

[jonnybefree]

when you remove a computer from an rendering image, will he finish the bucket before leaving?

[vlado]

when you remove a computer from an rendering image, will he finish the bucket before leaving?

No, but V-Ray will try to re-assign the bucket to another machine.

Best regards,
Vlado

[sv]

just been having a think about this and the possibilities would be great - especially if DR worked through backburner, and i think Vlado said he had figured out how to do this....or approach doing this....or something...

You could submit say 5 renders to backburner to render over night, using DR but using only 1 or 2 machines per image. In the morning, if they arne't all finished, you could assign all the machines that have finished to join in and complete the unfinished rendering.

A lot of the time, even though the scene is the same, different views take longer to render and your having to wait for one machine to finish it's network rendering before emailing clients with there images....