Hello !
I have 20 animated cameras in total 4500 frames to render with 4 different lighting rigs that I need to render in one go .
Rebusfarm and The Ranch render farms don’t support scene state neither batch rendering .
uploading 20 max files each 6 GB + 15 GB of proxies/textures isn’t an option .
Any suggestion for a render farm that support the above mentioned features ?
Of course supportng the usual archviz plugins is required :
(the latest ) V-Ray /Forest Pack/ Railclone/ CityTraffic ..etc
also support for multi-channel 32 bit exr is a must too .
Thanks in advance
xrefs. upload just small files with lighting setups and cameras. xrefs will be uploaded one time.
Thanks !
It is good Idea but I need to test if all thefeatures/ plugins are supported via xref .
to be honest I’ve never trusted Xref but will try it
Any other suggestion guys?
ranch lets you reference other jobs so it won’t be uploading the duplicate proxies or textures. you’d just upload 20 max files and the rest of it would be referencing the first job.
Yes also rebusfarm have that option too which is a huge time saver in this case.
I found this video which explain how to prepare jobs like this as one"Package" for CgiFarm if anyone is interested :
unfortunately I couldn’t xref the scene because of many issues and each time I tray to xref it freeze for many hours before showing an error message so I gave up .
to add to that I couldn’t upload the scene because of some unsupported plugins and couple of other problems that I couldn’t even read !
at the end of the day we had to stop all the projects that we are working on and just render on every computer we have at the office for 3 days nonstop and with vray denoiser and low limit for progressive we made it and deliver something 
it is good that this was just the draft version not the final…
its silly how these features have been around for so long and farm shave not found a way to support them