CGTalk - XBOX renderfarm

Mwai Kasamale

11-17-2002, 03:22 AM

I heard a few weeks ago that Game students in the GameDesign program at the school I attend (CDIS) have figured out a way to use XBOX machines as rendernodes. Hack the box to turn it into a renderbox. Is this possible and if so, How?

Thanx

MCronin

11-17-2002, 04:03 AM

They are running Linux on Xbox's now, so I'm sure they have POV Ray or something of that nature running. You need to mod the Xbox and Install Madrake 9. You could probably run POV Ray, or BMRT with no problem, but with the limited resources running MR or PRMan might not work so well. You'd probably also not want to start an X server to free up even more resources. It's and intersting novelty, but you could probably build better, faster render nodes for less money.

http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/

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