How to set up a Renderfarm in Indigo

redbyte · Post by **redbyte** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:15 am

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!

Stromberg · Post by **Stromberg** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:39 am

Great tutorial.

And it's so fun to use more than one pc render, on one image.. i just love it

SmartDen · Post by **SmartDen** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:01 pm

nice job!

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:23 am

Great stuff!

/bookmarked

Roughing · Post by **Roughing** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:08 pm

Question: Does network rendering allow for a larger image to be rendered that would otherwise give a memory allocation err. on a standalone?

WytRaven · Post by **WytRaven** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:55 pm

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.

Roughing · Post by **Roughing** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 1:26 am

Ok, thanks WytRaven, just was trying to render this huge image without having to rescale and loose the sharpness.

Doug Armand · Post by **Doug Armand** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 7:36 pm

Where has the 'Working Master' option gone to?

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Jambert · Post by **Jambert** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:09 pm

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

Meelis · Post by **Meelis** » Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:59 pm

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?

Borgleader · Post by **Borgleader** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:10 am

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

Meelis · Post by **Meelis** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:06 am

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

benn · Post by **benn** » Sat Sep 12, 2009 9:38 am

Worked master is in the 'network rendering pane' of the indigo GUI. I use it all the time

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:09 am

You don't have to pause master to add a slave.

Meelis · Post by **Meelis** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:51 am

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.

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