Mac (post Nvidia) with a PC-render node

[Andreas_Ridder]

Hi there,

I know, what you are going to say, but please: Give me a break!
I am using Cinema 4D (S22) on an iMac (2019, Catalina OS) with an AMD-GPU, so I cannot use the whole CUDA-power of vray gpu-rendering. I tried many things to get an Nvidia work (eGPU, deep-system manipulation, etc.), but it all did not work. I prefer my Mac as a Workstation, because there are many other graphic things to do in my job – and.. to be honest: I am familiar to it. It would be easy to get a PC for working on 3D-jobs, but this leads to a frustrating melee between two workstations (by the way... I do not have the space). So, here is my question: Can you imagine to use a Nvidia-loaded PC as a render-slave for Vray DR, trigged by a Mac? I read that this would be able and great with SWARM, but to my state of understanding, swarm is not available for C4D, right? Please let me know if you have any experience on that issue! Thank you very much in advance.

[aleksandar.kasabov]

Hello Andreas_Ridder ,

You can use the V-Ray DR option in the render settings to render using GPU on another machine. You will need to enable the distributed rendering, set your slave IP and disable “Render on Local Host”.

http://ftp.chaosgroup.com/support/Re...pLRfiBFDIx.png

You can then enable V-Ray RT as shown below.

http://ftp.chaosgroup.com/support/Re...Y40PAgGRMd.png

I hope this is of help.

[shaio]

Hi,
in addition to Aleksander's suggestion when installing V-Ray on the Windows machines for DR please make sure that you install the V-Ray Standalone version that comes with the V-Ray for Cinema 4D installer. To do so during the installation, you should select "Standalone" in the installation type (as shown in our help page on step 2). This will install a compatible with Cinema 4D version of V-Ray Standalone.
Also here we have some more info on how to setup DR on Windows machines if needed:
https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...ering+Settings

[Andreas_Ridder]

Hi Ivan, hi Aleksandar,

thanks you both, that's really helpful. Just to be sure: I can use a PC (with Nvidia-GPU) as a Standalone V-Ray Render Node for my Cinema 4D running Mac (which does not support CUDA). And I can even use VRAY RT by using that node, too. Indeed? That would be to nice to be true! Thank you for confirming.

[shaio]

Yes a lot of Maya users that are also working on macOS use PC's with NVidia GPU's installed with V-Ray Standalone started as a render node as a workaround for the lack of NVidia cards on macOS.

[Andreas_Ridder]

Hi again! That‘s cool. That‘s really really cool. Thanks for helping!