DR Pre-calcs

[Macker]

It would be fantastic if you could use an entire render farm to do pre-calcs, rather than just one machine. I'm sure I've made it sound a lot easier to do than it actually is, but it would be a great feature to have.

[Morne]

it is already like that for irradience map, but not for lightcache

for IRMap, you may not always see it happen, as the scene and files must 1st be transferred over the network to the DR machines, that's why they always start to render AFTER your machine you're working on


sometimes on smaller scene your pc will fully complete the IRMap before the files are complety send to the DR pc's and thats why may seem asif it only happens on 1 pc

[Neilg]

I tend to do IR maps on one machine with DR on, then send paths/strips to all machines with backburner. Needs a little communication through your office though, managing backburner servers & DR spawners can be a pain and i'm not sure if there is an easy way to do it.