Single VrScene + Render Farm goes slowww...

[JUICEBOX_ANIMATION]

Hi,

Don't know if this is a network/OS X prob or vray prob.

If I just let the farm crunch on a single vrscene, the renders are all over the place. 1 min / frame, 8 min, 15 min, 40 min etc...

The work around is that I batch out the vrscenes for as many computers and have 1 computer to each vrscene.

I don't know if the problem is due to our network setup is such that if a bunch of machines are reading a single file it gets hung up.. or if it has something to with the way vray looks at a single file..

Network setup.
Old G5 X Server
14 OS X dual and quad cores.
Using Smedge

Actually, maybe vrscene per frame is the way to go, I couldn't get this to work in 1.5 maya os x.. I will get on trying that..

Any insight to what maybe happening would be sweet!

Thanks in advance,
Oliver

[Zdravko]

As far as I know Smedge doesn’t have a module to render vrscene.
What is the module that you are using and if it includes V-Ray distributed rendering option?
Is there any output produced during rendering by the server/ nodes?
How do you render the vrscene on a single machine – with or without Smedge?
If you are using a custom module to distribute the vrscene over the network, the problem could be due to it (the path to vray.exe or/and the specific V-Ray command line options).
Some more information will be appreciated.

[JUICEBOX_ANIMATION]

Hi Zdravko,

Thank you for the response.

Smedge -
Using generic script execution.

I set our pipeline up to do vrscenes per frame instead.. Working great now!

Thanks,
Oliver