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How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:15 am
by redbyte
Wouldn't it be nice if you could harness the power of those idle computers lying around the house, and shave your rendertime down to a fraction? In a few easy steps you can!
http://www.blenderguru.com/how-to-set-u ... th-indigo/
Aimed mainly at Blender & Windows users, but I'm hoping it can be carried over to other platforms.
Enjoy!
If you have any questions or queries, feel free to drop a comment here or at my blog and I'll be happy to answer!
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:39 am
by Stromberg
Great tutorial.
And it's so fun to use more than one pc render, on one image.. i just love it
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:01 pm
by SmartDen
nice job!
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:23 am
by Borgleader
Great stuff!
/bookmarked
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:08 pm
by Roughing
Question: Does network rendering allow for a larger image to be rendered that would otherwise give a memory allocation err. on a standalone?
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:55 pm
by WytRaven
Roughing wrote:Question: Does network rendering allow for a larger image to be rendered that would otherwise give a memory allocation err. on a standalone?
No, as the same scene (and therefore all it's inherent properties) is being rendered on all nodes. So you have to setup the scene to cater for the lowest denominator.
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:26 am
by Roughing
Ok, thanks WytRaven, just was trying to render this huge image without having to rescale and loose the sharpness.
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:36 pm
by Doug Armand
Where has the 'Working Master' option gone to?
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Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:09 pm
by Jambert
Doug Armand wrote:Where has the 'Working Master' option gone to?
Maybe it's no use, since commercial release, you get one master with master license and nodes with nodes lisences, maybe indigo does that work
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:59 pm
by Meelis
But can i add slave later if rendering is in progress?
Can i remove slave if rendering in progress and add again if pc is free to use?
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:10 am
by Borgleader
Meelis wrote:But can i add slave later if rendering is in progress?
Can i remove slave if rendering in progress and add again if pc is free to use?
Pause --> Add --> Resume?
or
With .igi saving enabled, stop the render and resume with added slave?
I've never tried network rendering so, dont take my word for it
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:06 am
by Meelis
Very cool, i can add - remove - readd slaves whenever i want.
Aditional c2d e7400 2.8GHz to my main c2d e4500 2.2GHz is nice
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:38 am
by benn
Worked master is in the 'network rendering pane' of the indigo GUI. I use it all the time
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:09 am
by suvakas
You don't have to pause master to add a slave.
Re: How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:51 am
by Meelis
suvakas wrote:You don't have to pause master to add a slave.
Yes thats good i just yesterday figured it out by accident
Everything is made so easy
But what is optimal display/save periode?
My display periode is 120sec and save periode is 240sec.
Now i have 2 minutes, with old ~12MB/s homenetwork router 1 frame transfer time is about 3-4sec after every 2min.