V-Ray on MAC and Render Node on Windows with CUDA?

[MLalakStudio]

Hello,

Could you please share your opinion about using split environment (mac+win) for SWARM? I'm using Mac as my default workstation but it suffers from lack of GPU Rendering (which is a huge shame for Chaos Group). I have second machine with Windows and Nvidia onboard and would like to use it as SWARM/Render Node with hybrid CPU/GPU rendering. Is it possible? How to do it?

Thank you in advance,
Marlena

[georgi.georgiev]

Hi Marlena,

It is possible to distribute a render job between a MAC and Windows machine using V-Ray Swarm. It is only necessary to activate the Hybrid render engine from the local machine and select the C++/CPU option. You could also use the 'GPU Device Selection' tool (Extensions > V-Ray > Tools) to set the devices, which would eliminate the need to select the options everytime. Consequently, V-Ray Swarm manager will engage all CUDA-enabled devices found on the network.

Please note that when you start a render job with one machine it always takes one Render Node 3.0 license, regardless it is on your workstation or on Swarm render slave machine. You need Render Node 3.0 license for each additional machine that is used for rendering.