Network rendering

[giannis]

3 gigs of ram on each windows machine (xp limit) and 2gigs on the mac

animation is still going strong after 60 images rendered!

Hi

I did little test (500x500pix mlt) with one osx 10.4.11 and one xp machine and everything works here just fine.

I do more tests later today so I can tell how it works with bigger pictures.[/b]

lekonna, animation was working very well already
of course I never tried to multi-platform it... but Tomasz or someone was successful with this I think...

It is unbiased networking we are worried about.

[giannis]

networked animation had problems as well... at least that's what
i saw when connected my winxp/macmini (and from what i understood
that wasn't due to cross-platform issue).

[giannis]

Ran a small animation with 3 machines over the night.

2 windows and 1 mac (intel)


sorry about the file its 14megs.

now there is some nasty flicker in the film but i think it is because i used preset 5 photonmapping + medium. and the scene is quite demanding for that preset.

the main point being that this actually worked quite well, none of the machines crashed during the night.

[giannis]

that's nice!!

flickering may be due to irradiance cache not shared

Also... i am thinking of finding testers with access to big render farms
(>10 machines) for an unbiased animation. what do you think?

[ToMasz]

[giannis]

[giannis]