Vue 8 with small render farm

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i am guessing here, but most times when you render between two computers, there is a time that is spent collecting data for the scene before the actual rendering happens. things like calculating displacement, light cache, rendering shadow maps, etc. all of this usually happens before rendering the actual image, and if you have your quad cpu and your dual linked, then maybe what is happening is that the renderer is either sharing the info accross computers and that is taking extra time, or... both computers have to finish calculating this info first before moving onto the rendering process. it could be a case of the quad merely waiting for the dual to finish before rendering. so in this case it could slow the rendering process down.

network rendering isn't faster in every case. it all depends how you are rendering, and what.

if you offload a set of frames to one pc and another set of frames to another then it will be faster. if you are trying to render one image that isnt overly complex ( lack of heavy raytracing ) then it might be slower to use a network.


none of this is based on vue knowledge btw, just how a number of renderers work over the network.

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