Swarm 2.0

[toniboni]

Hi there,

Trying to receive a response with opening a new thread.

I've been waiting until today to install the new vray 7 because I had a working setup with 6.20.05 and I was afraid this might be difficult to achieve with a new version and it seems that I was right. Setting up swarm still required these well hidden steps with the origin node. Although it is nearly 2 months after your posting and I have installed the latest version. So, the slave machine successfully downloaded the vray version. But now it will not start rendering, it gets stuck in status "starting". See screenshot. Please help.

[charles_messenger]

I've given up on trying to get it to work. I finally got to the point where the machines are all listed as available and the remote computer was even able to download the correct vray version, but then nothing happens and it switches to unavailable. Super frustrating...

[toniboni]

So since there is no response of the chaos team here, I will unfortunately have to switch back to version 6.20.05. Also I will have to go back to swarm 1.4.8. Sorry guys, but this support is really disappointing.

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi guys,

We are preparing a major Swarm update, which will be included in the next V-Ray version.
The need for an origin node will be completely removed.

On top of that, you'll gain access to a Classic Distributed Rendering mode.
It doesn't rely on Swarm to manage the render nodes.
You'll basically be able to start a V-Ray Standalone Server on the nodes and list their IPs on the computer rendering.
This workflow requires more manual work but could be more predictable and stable.

I'll keep you posted,
Konstantin