How to perform region render with different mechine ?

[Seila]

hi,

I want to split the rendering job of a still frame into four part and each of them resposible for quater of the result image, and i hope finally they can be seamed together into a final image.

To achieve this job i need several functionalities:
- The ablility to set specific region rendering
- send jobs to mechine in render-farm
- Retrieve the results and seam they together

First, i don't see any region-render related setting in Maya's Render setting window (not the bucket setting), where can i find these settings ?
Then, i think the last two functionality could be achieve by setting some flags for "vray" command (where can i find the valid flag for vray command ?), but i don't know where can i set these flag string in Vray for Maya that can pass to "vray" command when i do regular rendering\IPR rendering\batch rendering ?

Thanks.

[yolov]

I don't think there's such an option for the moment. The regions can be set for the VFB.
Open a MEL tab in the script editor and execute this line to get all the help for it:
vray vfbControl;
You could probably use some scripting to set different regions for different render layers.
There are a few tools out there there seem to do exactly what you're after.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

You can export to vrscene and use vray.exe with this option:

-region=x0;y0;x1;y1 - set the region to render.
The integer values are in pixels, relative to the upper-left corner
of the image.
(default is full image or as specified in the .vrscene file)

Then you must manually start each machine with a region. It may be possible some render manager to automate this, but I don't know.

[FSGFX]

think deadline jigsaw is doing that...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQEO6EUDDf0