a dialog box for render slaves to target textures on a network

[ignuf]

Hi all,
It be great to have some sort of dialog box for render slaves to re-direct or target the location of the textures/source images files on a network or hard drive.

currently the way of using say a terminal on a mac to try and target or redirect the slave to a particular location where the source images are to be found, be it either local or on a network, can prove quite fiddly. especially for less tech savvy users.

kind regards
ignuf

[vlado]

Well, we were thinking of implementing automatic texture distribution to the slaves, i.e. if a slave cannot find a texture map, it could request it from the main machine and store it on disk for further usage.

Best regards,
Vlado

[ignuf]

Hi Vlado,

thanks for the reply,

sounds cool ! would the process be completely automatic or would the user have some level of control over this ?

thanks Vlado
ignuf

[vlado]

There will be some control - at a minimum, the texture cache folder needs to be specified, as well as a limit of how long to keep the textures.

Best regards,
Vlado