thomaspecht
12-19-2004, 07:20 PM
given a situation, where an identical version of maya is installed on several machines (unix/linux), how would one go about sending a render job out from one workstation to the other(s) in an attempt to continue working on the scene on the current machine while a render is in progress?
is this possible at all with maya and mental ray if there's no mental ray standalone on the
"slave"-machines? can i designate normal maya installations as render slaves?
also, since i've never worked with a render farm before: if i sent out a job to the render slaves, how do i obtain the final image (and check the rendering progress)? is there a way to automatically send back the finished image to my machine and display it on-screen or do i have to grab it manually from the filesystem?
i've looked up tutorials like the "mental ray for maya render farm setup" but they are all aimed at the classic master->slave setup and do not help me that much in this specific situation.
any insight greatly appreciated.
is this possible at all with maya and mental ray if there's no mental ray standalone on the
"slave"-machines? can i designate normal maya installations as render slaves?
also, since i've never worked with a render farm before: if i sent out a job to the render slaves, how do i obtain the final image (and check the rendering progress)? is there a way to automatically send back the finished image to my machine and display it on-screen or do i have to grab it manually from the filesystem?
i've looked up tutorials like the "mental ray for maya render farm setup" but they are all aimed at the classic master->slave setup and do not help me that much in this specific situation.
any insight greatly appreciated.