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godfatherwow
10-06-2006, 06:30 PM
Looking at setting up a render farm with about 20 computers. Just wanted to know what programs are available that work under Windows XP. Possibly some free or popular programs that work well. Tried DrQueue but doesn't seem to be maintained and doesn't work. Also checked out programs listed on: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1847413,00.asp. Tried some of them but was unable to get any results. Thanks.
meshman
10-07-2006, 10:39 AM
We used rush before switching to renderman and alfred, rush was working good and stable.

heres is the internet adress:
http://seriss.com
godfatherwow
10-07-2006, 02:41 PM
Thank you so much meshman, I'll give it a try.
brogh
10-09-2006, 08:17 AM
there are a few rendermanagers, try to take a look at www.royalrender.de, it's cheap, and it seems to work good.

Dr queue is still mantained, but under windows it's a little bit tricky, you have to watch out for a lot of things, eg: tsch shell, gtk, at the moment it's also dead slow under windows, but with a little bit of working probably you can get good result.

you can also check here: http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/tools/render_managers/


some are still mantained some not.

Cheers
jojjoj23
10-10-2006, 02:47 AM
You should also look at render pal
Ironhalo
10-10-2006, 07:49 PM
we use muster at our studio, it works quite well. i think its a bit pricy but its very stable. the only problem ive had so far is i always get a zdepth file when i render with maya. beyond that.. its quite nice.

and actually.. if anyone knows how to get rid of said depth file id be very grateful to know..!
Sharky0815
10-10-2006, 08:30 PM
If you are running a Windows Farm, Deadline (http://software.franticfilms.com/index.aspx?page=deadline) is worth mentioning.
temo
10-13-2006, 05:14 AM
MUSTER from VirtualVertex

its fully customizable, and I was rendering few scenes at the same time, changing priorities and so on, without a glitch. but it requires someone with a bit of a knowledge, networking and so on

IronHalo: I believe it has a special tag for it that you can write down in additional parameters,
but the easier way to do it (if you feel lazy) resave the maya file with z depth unchecked. then render
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