Ensuring that 10 slaves actually get used in DR

[Dynedain]

Here's a wish that I can't believe I thought of before.

Currently, for DR, VRay appears to pick the first 10 nodes that are marked in the list of slaves. And attempts to use them.

My wish is that if VRay cannot connect to a slave, instead of counting it against the 10 slave limit and doing nothing, to instead attempt to use the next slave on the list that is marked to be used.

Right now, if I have 20 slaves all marked, VRay will only attempt to use 10, and if it can't connect to one of those 10, then only 9 slaves get used in the rendering.

If this wish could go through, then if VRay couldn't connect to a slave, it would use one of the other 10 previously unused slaves, so that I still end up with 10 slaves in use on the rendering.

Make sense?

[Morbid Angel]

Here's a wish that I can't believe I thought of before.

that doesnt make sence
you mean you cant believe you havent thought of that before ?

I would say that some good DR management tool is required, since the DR has proven to be a pain in the ass, the dr manager would be a good solution to monitor, assign, restart slaves and so on.

[Dynedain]

Yeah, that's what I meant


I agree that a good DR management tool would really rock; I've been fairly happy with Vsai's tools so far.

At this point, I guess it's more in the license end of the DR since it involves the 10-node limit. I guess I'm just wishing that the tally of nodes is made after a node is successfully connected to, instead of before.

[sv]

a dr management tool would be a great idea.

just thinking out loud in another thread:
http://www.chaosgroup.com/forum/phpB...highlight=join
although this was thinking about using DR through Backburner - a separate DR Management program would be a much better option

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....