CGTalk - Network rendering

dvornik

12-12-2002, 08:46 PM

I work for a school and we are considering buying a distributed rendering solution such as Muster or Smedge so we can use idle workstations for rendering student projects. We need to be able to schedule availability of workstations and to centrally control the rendering process. From what I understand Muster 3.0 has a scheduling feature as well as ability to assign different rights to users. Do you think it will work for our purposes?

Right now we're win2k-based, we may install Maya on OS X as well in the future. I suppose there is no integrated Maya/3ds max network rendering solution, is there?

Thanks in advance.

Serge.

alexx

12-12-2002, 09:01 PM

i used muster 2.0 in a bigger production as TD already and i was quite pleased with that version (nevertheless it had a lot of bugs)

i think it will do quite well, what you are planning to do..
sorry no clue about smedge.

does max have a command line render?
if so you can use muster for it as well, since it has command line support. you would just have to write a small script in max to make the connection.

cheers

alexx

dvornik

12-13-2002, 08:41 PM

Thanks, alexx. I've downloaded the trial version of Muster 3 and will try it next week. I'm not sure about max - I don't think it has a command line render.

[edit] Does a rendering machine take a Maya license?

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