Network rendering???

[jtk77]

I think it is for short renders ..like a commercial ...and print work. i won;t render a few min aniamtion in it if I had a deadline.
I don't think i'd do it even if it was XSI instead of Maya I was running.
As far as fake solutions.. well GI Joe can be just as slow outta maya if you crank it up to a level that you need to fake some of the bounce out of Mray.
If you look into what you can bake into a texture as opposed to rendering out..like background elements and parts that are unscene in many angles.. and then pull the render flags right and only let objects the ned to be cast and receinved turned on . Then you can dramticaly speed your scene up by just being smart about how you're using those protons.
Also make sure you min adn max matchs you scene size ..or you're wasting space there as well.

[audun]

Min and Max meaning Radius for Final Gather ?...

[gmask]

You have me convinced, would it be right to say that you think MR integration with Maya is not production ready....

Generally i would say yes.. unless you work mainly in polys..yikes.. what's the point? Anyway if there are not focused on making the needed improvements then addin gthis to the software is like trying to put a BottleRocket on a Butterfly.

[jtk77]

min max final gathering ..yes.
and polys is the way the world is turning
but the NURBS thing, I would say they should look into the effciency issues there. I'll bet its a ram leak or somthing lame...or it recalculates every time.

[gmask]

I'll bet its a ram leak or somthing lame

This must be related to the lack of a shared memory space.. until they get all the geometry %100 compatible it will be slow to save out large files for rendering. In then meantime using low poly count stand in models for tests would be a good idea.

[jtk77]

your probably right..honestly that helmit in my render is dense NURBS geometry... not that dense ..but you get the idea.
Anyway. It realy wasn;t that bad of a wait. If they could shave a few mins off the frame by better allocating memory , that would ,of course, be awsome.

[sumo-kun]

As of 3.0 Muster supports MR for maya. To do this, it calls maya with a few extra commands to change the start and end frames. One thing I discovered is that you need to make sure that you use the frame range "DerivedfromMaya" rather than forcing it in the MR section.
3.0 muster fixes quite a few problems, but I still have seen some issues with zombie processes getting left behind, consuming RAM. Not all the time though.... I now even have it working on the Mac.
-MD

[taz1004]

Are any of you actually running mr for maya on multiple systems? We have small studio with 8 maya license with 1 floating and whenever I launch an animation to the farm, only one machine is rendering using the floating license. I'm not even looking to split single frame images. I just wish to split animation sequences. Am I doing something wrong or do I need the stand alone?

Thanks.

--BrianC

[midgetdiablo]

And can you accelerate the rendering of a single frame using a network of mixed OS's?

[user_deleted]

Have Maya 5.0 Unlimited on a single workstation and want to add 4 render slave machines. Only Mental Ray's stand alone renderer needs to be on the 4 slaves correct? Also what size of hard drive would you recommend for each slave in the network? Does Maya take advantage multiple processors in a network during animation/modeling or only during rendering?

[zsz98781]

QUOTE(Virtuoso @ 01/18/38, 07:14 PM)
I was told it is not possible to "NETWORK RENDER" with Metal Ray 1.5? Only with the standalone. Is there another way? Can GI Joe allow for network rendering?

[bluemagic]

QUOTE(zsz98781 @ 09/05/05, 12:44 AM)
is too easy! must be setup maya 7.0 satellate for MR.

[flox]

I was told it is not possible to "NETWORK RENDER" with Metal Ray 1.5? Only with the standalone. Is there another way? Can GI Joe allow for network rendering?

       What's the best way to go for network rendering,if at all? discount Renderman...too much cash.

        Thanks for any help.

[laurensummer]

nice
and so much of quality

[marthastuart]

Doesn't work at all...

[shivpatil]

Thanks for sharing................