Render only on nodes, not main PC - Looking for software solution

Corona Corona for 3ds Max General
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I am looking for a solution to set up a render farm for my office. I have several nodes and workstations. I want to submit the renderings to the nodes only so the workstations can still be used without RAM problems. As far as I know, this is still not possible with Corona DR Server. And backburner doesn’t support to render a frame on more than one machine. So what is the solution? Which software does support this feature? Any help is highly appreciated.

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You can submit a job to BB with activated Coroan DR nodes, works fine.

Good Luck

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You can submit a job to BB with activated Coroan DR nodes, works fine.

That’s what I do. But still, backburner only sends a job to one node. It is not rendered on more than one node at a time. Or am I wrong?

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Right. But the other nodes work also on that same frame. You

  • submit a BB job (only!) to Node-01, inside the scene Node-02, Node-03 etc. are defined as Corona DR slaves
  • Node-01 gets the job by Backburner and uses Node-02, Node-03 etc. as slaves

So actually you can make all the farm nodes work on one frame, that’s what you wanted?

Good Luck

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You were right. Just tested it and it works fine. Thank you for your help!