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Gabester

11-28-2005, 03:05 AM

Hey Everyone,

I'm trying to network render for Maya, but the instructions are ssoooo difficult to understand. I have downloaded maya sattelite, and Mental Ray for maya standalone. But why isn't there an exe that I can execute? I have no idea where it installs itself. Unbelievable. There is no information on how to use maya standalone.

How did everyone else get it to render across the network? The only piece of relevant information that I could find was to change the maya.rayhost file with the appropriate networked computer names that I'm using. But that doesn't work either.

Could anyone pplleease help?

Just as an added bit of information, placing the maya.rayhost file in the My Documents\maya\6.5\prefs directory does not solve anything, and when I render in maya, it doesn't tell me that it's using other computers.

dunkelzahn

11-28-2005, 11:32 AM

Hello everybody,

If anybody has some information about seting up a render network, please share it. I am going to set up one soon for the company I´m working for. Besides general setup procedures, I am having one specific question:

-I understand Maya Complete 7 comes with 2 MR CPU licenses, but what about the software renderer, what is the limit of that and how do I setup a render network?

Hope someone can help Gabester and me...

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