V-Ray Distributed Render

[angryDAnerd]

Hey I have a question. Does each machine need enough ram to fully load the scene? One of my machines has 16gb ram and the other has 8gb, if I try to render a scene that uses 13gb, will I be able to use my 8gb machine in distributed rendering?

[afumadous]

@angryDAnerd its depend on the memory needed for your scene. if you have so many polygons and high resolution material, you know, as max and V-Ray is hungry for memory due to that case. as long as your scene doesn't required huge memory, your 8GB machine will do rendering also. i suggest to increase your virtual memory for the master also the slave node for big scene and high resolution material (mapping). Increase your processor to high end is more significant then increase memory.

[usidda]

am so Jealous bro , can u tell me how may nods you used and there spec , so i can know what to expect with mine thanks in adv

[afumadous]

@usidda

that was kind of old stuff computer server each with xeon 3.2GHz 2GB of Ram.

actually u can combine any computer spec to setup ur distributed render. now days the latest processor gives u many cores to creat more bucket in rendering process. and dont forget, 64 bit is rock ;)

[afumadous]

@usidda render farm no need high spec. but a lot of pc. in this experiment i only use old renderfarm with old xeon processor 3.2 GHz with 2GB ram each node, onboard vga and lan. it was 4 node or active 3 node, i forgot. in limited budget, just customize render farm for $400 each node ( for motherboard (with build in LAN), processor and ram). the storage use network storage. times to 400, you'll have 400 node only cost $16.000. my friend was did this low cost render farm for some project.

[carmilache]

i have 2 computers, both running vray1.5 sp2 with 3dmax- and i tried to make them run in DR mode, so far no success:( i looked on forums, tried some stuff , still no brake- can you give me some simple steps to follow? i'm kind of stuck in here :P

[afumadous]

@carmilache what os u running for those setup ?

[carmilache]

@afumadous i got the problem fixed- on one machine i had w vista and on the other w7- that's why it did not work;) now i have other problems, when i hit render one bucket renders good while the other forgets to render the textures, and when i got that sorted out- one was rendering a litle brighter than the other- to this day i can't find out why

[afumadous]

@carmilache it is a problem came from the Win7. i got same problem too with security issue for win7. it doesn't allow vray DR to access the folder where map files placed. even this folder already opened to any users which are already granted to access. i tested for Mental Ray, win7 allowed them, not yet for v-ray to me. may be other people have solved this problem. at moment, not using relative path // but use exact path, c:.. and place same files in the same folder each slaves.

[alanpgoodwin]

Oh man!  That's a sweet setup!

[afumadous]

@alanpgoodwin sweet simple setup ;)

[pakau]

i have a big fukin problem with this, i have V-ray Build 1.50.16 DEMO , and that does not come with Distributed render.. is there any way i can install it on top of it ? maybe if i got the files right ?

[afumadous]

@pakau go for v-ray 2.002

[mito0101]

Hi man, I'm having a problem with this, And i could not figure it out, The VraySpawner keeps opening and closeing the 3DSmax window, never "Stays" Ive tested a lot of releases... I'm actualy using 1.5RC3... Any tip?

[afumadous]

@mito0101 go for v-ray. vrayspawner in slave (also can be installed in master machine) should be standby to receive instruction for the master to do rendering. when they got instruction, then will go to do rendering.

[bradcurnow]

Hey buddy,

i was just wondering how you get Vray to do this? I find I cant get it to DR for animations, except the first frame...

Are you using backburner or similar?

thanks in advance!! :D

Cheers

[afumadous]

hello there,

its very easy way to get distributed render in V-Ray. just check the distributed render option in your V-Ray Render Option.

make sure your distributed render system installed in your computer. V-Ray 1.5 still not delivered with this distributed render system. wait for next released from chaos groups.

also make sure install V-Ray Distributed Render tools (full or just slave) in your other computer as the server who will do the render in your frame.

good luck ;)

[bradcurnow]

hey thanks!

I'm pretty sure I have all that sorted as I can use DR on still images, just not animations. It renders the first frame with DR but then reverts to using just one node.

I'm using Vray with Sketchup, so perhaps the problem lies with their porting to Sketchup??

Thanks for your help :)

[afumadous]

so the problem is, your node only render on the first frame only ?

have you check the informastion box, whats going on your node while the DR render the next frame ?

not every frame can be rendered using all nodes we set up. sometimes one frame only can be rendered using 2 of 3 nodes, or sometimes only 1. depend on the job that should be finished in the each node.

btw, i never use V-Ray in sketchup yet.

hope thats help.

[bradcurnow]

okay well, nasically my setup is as follows:

I have a worskstation (PC1) and two render nodes (RN1 & RN2). This works perfectly for single images. When I try to use DR on an animation, PC1, RN1 and RN2 render frame one, but only PC1 renders the remaining frames :(

I was just searching some forums and this seems to be a known issue with the Sketchup plugin :)

I'll just have to be a bit clever and break the scene up manually!

Thanks for your help mate

[afumadous]

@bradcurnow this one i didnt use backburner, only distributed renderer from v-ray, but you can combine using back burner too.

[bradcurnow]

@afumadous thanks mate!

[kirk868]

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