RR can be used free with 3 machines I think - meant to be trial, but worth testing - it works very well - we use it on our farm and rendered last weekend 6000 stereo frames at film res.
S. _____________________________ Sandy Sutherland Technical Supervisor [email protected] _____________________________ ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Stephen Davidson [[email protected]] Sent: 21 July 2012 18:46 To: RuiSantos; [email protected] Subject: Re: Make a pass non-renderable? Thanks, Rui. That looks interesting. I will give it a try when I have some downtime to install and test. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:01 PM, RuiSantos <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi guys, First i used to handwrite my own batch scripts...then moved on to Kim' BatchMaker,although i had to hand correct/add some features ,like diferent settings for diferent machines capabilities,matte passes for the weakest machine, etc.. So i ended up having several scripts based on the KA BatchMaker's generated one...and it worked very nicely for a long time... Because i have just 2 machines for render,i didn't feel the need for a full render manager. I discovered Thinkbox Deadline a while ago,and it's my workhorse managing renderings nowadays.. It's "free" if you have 2 render machines,and it works very well with softimage and other vendors,it has an addon the allows you to submit your renders from inside softimage,remote acess to manage your renders,assigns passes to specific machines,creates dependencies,like this pass renders before that one...etc..etc...i mean it's really nice and EASY to set up. If you have a small shop,i have a go and try it.. later, Rui www.ruisantos3d.com<http://www.ruisantos3d.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Stephen Davidson<mailto:[email protected]> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 6:15 AM Subject: Re: Make a pass non-renderable? That is lame. Other than that, how do you like Rebus for rendering? On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Byron Nash <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I put in a feature request at REBUS to enable and they just said to delete the passes. That's a lame response. I am sure their system is sending those batch commands somewhere along the way. They just need to open it up just enough to let someone add those pass flags. I do use those a lot in the command line locally. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Chris Chia <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 1 advice: I would customised the render farm to take in the -pass flag from your submission page (add an input box or something to grab user's inputs) and pass the following command (if input box is not empty) to render farm. xsibatch -render myscene.scn -pass mypassName Else if no input: xsibatch -render myscene.scn Chris On 20 Jul, 2012, at 3:30 AM, "Byron Nash" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: I am using REBUS render farm and it seems to be pretty quick and economical. It only seems to render the whole scene however. Is there an easy way to make passes not render when you hit render all? I assume that's sort of what this farm is doing. -- Best Regards, Stephen P. Davidson (954) 552-7956 [email protected] [X] <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> My Website is GREEN, Is yours? [affiliate_link]<http://www.fatcow.com/join/index.bml?AffID=626478> -- Best Regards, Stephen P. Davidson (954) 552-7956 [email protected] [http://www.3danimationmagic.com/3Danimation_magic_logo_sign.jpg] <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> My Website is GREEN, Is yours? [affiliate_link]<http://www.fatcow.com/join/index.bml?AffID=626478>
