DistributedRendering - 1frame per PC?

[mouserealm]

helloThere!

distributed rendering, as far as i know, sends tiles of each frame to differend renderslaves and the master puts them together to one frame ...! how can i tell XSI to send a complete frame to one slave?

my problem is, in my scene (hairy character) distributed rendering always kills the process after 2-4 frames! when rendering on the master alone its all fine (but tooooslow)?

TNX for helping
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[wolfinger]

render every second frame on one computer and the rest on another.

I bet the new RenderBatch tools would have a lot of different ways to distribute rendering.

[atyss]

I haven't tried it with XSI yet, but it works with SI3D. I hope it does with XSI.

Instead of managing the job with one computer, open a batch renderer on each machine and ask them to render the scene. Of course, make sure that they output the frames to the same folder. Because you checked "Skip Rendered Frames", each machine should recognize what each other is doing, preventing them from doing the same frames.

In SI3D, when one process is starting a new frame, it creates a temporary file with the frame number in the render_pictures folder. That file states that this frame is currently rendering, so the other machines search for other-not-rendered-frames.

Hope this helps
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Bernard Lebel