Global illumination (3)

[moss]

Hi,
I created a photon map and saved it in the Materials_Photon directory so that soft will not have to recalculate for every render. How do I save this scene over to a render farm and use the same photon map? I tried manually copying the file to each drone but it still didn't work. I even made the directory in render settings to point to the Material_photon directory for each drone. Pls help.

Astro

[richard-sher]

I've found that the best way to get photon maps to work on a render farm is to tell Softimage to save the photon map out in a central location on your network. Make sure that the drive letter for that network location is mapped the same on every pc. Example: n:photonmapsmyphotonmap (Or something like that) Since Softimage is going to look in n:photonmaps every time you try to render that scene, it should render fine. This will also save you from having to copy all of your photon maps to different machines.

Ed
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[moss]

Thanks again Ed.

Astro