CGTalk - Cinema4d and Xgrid

okfir

08-20-2008, 02:59 PM

Hi,
We are in the proccess of building a small render farm that will be made of 3 mac pro and 4 mac mini, up to now I was rendering with the Net Render. Today our tech guy came and suggested to try and render with xgrade, my first response was - ??? I have no idea what he was talking about.
Anyone know something about the integration between cinema4d and xgrade?

Thanks in advance

Srek

08-20-2008, 03:04 PM

No, CINEMA 4D does not support Xgrid. This would require a very different application architecture.
Cheers
Björn

okfir

08-20-2008, 07:22 PM

dann_stubbs

08-20-2008, 07:28 PM

Thanks for the reply,
What you say is that our only option is net render or do I have any other option?
I am not saying that net render is not good, I just ask if there is any other option for mac that can handle renders and clients like xgrid does

not like xgrid does - that is more like cluster computing

but you could use many other third party render managers to control network rendering like rush, butterfly net render, smedge etc which would give you much more control over the render clients, jobs, queues etc

search the forum for render manager and i'm sure many threads will turn up that will help you. you also may want to have your tech guy read/learn a bit more about the differences between cluster/xgrid and other types of network rendering as that will help you as well.

dann

Navstar

08-20-2008, 09:14 PM

Xgrid has extremely limited usage -- mostly in biosciences. I don't know of any graphics app that uses it.

Supposedly Shake and Compressor can use Qmaster, but I've never gotten it to work.

okfir

08-21-2008, 05:31 AM

Thanks for the replys,
Any one heard about RenderPal? I've searched the web and found it and it seams to support cinema4d.

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