Distributed Render

[nizu]

Re: Distributed Render

Hi,
i see there's no Unix-Windows option for DR , the other options wouldn't work, right ?
I suppose it's not a common situation. But it's my setup :
Master - ubuntu 10.10 64bit
Slave -1x windows 7 64 ultimate.

So i did some experiments and got it somewhat working .. Maybe mine is a bad solution , it's not flexible for sure .. but seems quite generic.

In the material .vrscene , i had the script write the paths of textures like this : /SharedFolder/BlendName/texture

Unix reads the path without problems (a normal absolute path)
Windows understands that too , and reads it like : C:\SharedFolder\BlendName\texture

So it's necessary to have the same full path and folder structure on all machines , starting from / in linux and from C: in windows.
(shared folder must be created as usual )

In the "#include" paths of vrscene.txt , i put both formats : windows style absolute paths and unix paths
(it wasn't possible in textures to add duplicate /alternative paths , but here it worked)

I hope this is useful , I don't know if this was already considered and what problems might have (not tested with macs or with xp )

[bdancer]

Re: Distributed Render

nizu, nice discovery this will help tnx =)

[dalibu]

Re: Distributed Render

Hi, So far I've been using Blender Vray on PC, but I would like to test the distributed render Mac ---> Win 7 64bit, using this great tip. Could you tell me where the latest OS X Mac builds are or how to compile my own? Thanks.

[bdancer]

Re: Distributed Render

Dalibu, my mac charger is still broken so you will need to combine this tutorial: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2 ... lender/Mac
with applying my patches: http://github.com/bdancer/vb25-patch/wiki/Compilation

[dalibu]

Re: Distributed Render

Am still trying to compile the mac build, but thanks for your help bdancer and others on this forum. Meanwhile, has anyone seen that http://www.rendercore.com/ now supports Vray standalone? Does this mean that we can send our renders there to render on their renderfarm?

[bdancer]

Re: Distributed Render

Does this mean that we can send our renders there to render on their renderfarm?

I think, yes.

[elieli]

Re: Distributed Render

Hi to all,
I'm just wondering, am I missing something or Distributed rendering isn't working at the moment. I'm using Windows-Windows config.

Anyway great job,

[bdancer]

Re: Distributed Render

elieli, may be, I have to check it...