Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread studio
Hi Chris : Sorry , not a lot of time right now , and actually behind on my mails (and everything else), but ... Are you using PRS ? If not , try it . I have 3 machines and I have not tried it with SP3 , but maybe later today . Anyway, I have a very small tute on the Wiki .

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Sellars
Hello studio Without your tutorial I would not have even got this far. I am running PRS.exe on the main machine and not on the others. I have not enabled the automatic PRS system with RendW as it just crashes my system and often corrupts/loses the rendering settings. Chris Sellars Morsel

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread Jason Saunders
you may also want to check you have all the same plug-in files on each pc. A missing or out of date plug-in has halted my network renders before. Regards Jason - Original Message - From: Chris Sellars [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Thursday, January 11,

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Sellars
Hello Studio, Yes sounds like the same experience as mine. RendW full of errors and crashes, PRS.exe reporting no instructions, just a blank Dos window.. I too have recently upgraded some of my network to 1Gigbit, and the machines that work are still running on the old cards and the ones that

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread studio
Yes sounds like the same experience as mine. RendW full of errors and crashes, PRS.exe reporting no instructions, just a blank Dos window.. Yes , and to me this sounds like a bug , however , Arjo is on SP3 (I'm fairly sure) and PRS is running fine for him , so I am now lost as to what to say

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread studio
I'm running PRS in a 6 computer setup without much problems. The only error I get on a regular basis is that RendW/RendD have a bug putting arguments in the wrong field at startup sometimes. Arjo. OK , got it working : Turns out it was human error again (mine!) . Arjo mentioning that

Re: Modifying the Camera Object

2007-01-11 Thread studio
This is all basic real world camera stuff, the focal length of a lens is directly proportional to its angle of view, they cant be separated, however there is a third variable to consider, which you can adjust and that is the width of the pickup device ... Andrew Berge OK , thanks .

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Sellars
Hi Studio, I will go back to the start of your tutorial as you suggest and load the correct startup arguements. Failing that I will install a faster network card on one of the machines that do work, and see if that's the problem. Thanks again, Chris - Original Message - From: studio

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread studio
Hi Studio, I will go back to the start of your tutorial as you suggest and load the correct startup arguements. Failing that I will install a faster network card on one of the machines that do work, and see if that's the problem. Thanks again, Chris Hi Chris : Yes , good idea to swap

Re: Network rendering

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Sellars
Hi Studio Installed a new network card, but this is not the problem as it still works fine on this machine. I know all my machines used to work fine with the old V4 setup, so this is a V5 config problem of some kind. I'm still only using PRS.exe and RenD in order to keep things simple. One thing