Network Render setup

#1

Hello all!

I hope this is in the right forum
At work I have 4 Apple computers available to me for rendering my Maya scenes. I am currently on a Mac Pro. I have two other Mac Pros and two iMacs. I was wondering how I can set up a network render to utilize the processors on all the the machines with the scene submitted from my computer.

I am not looking for fancy custom render GUI’s in Maya, just a system that will allow to submit this network render.

Does anyone have experience with this or know how to set it up? Also, will I need to purchase additional Maya render licenses?

#2

This is a good, easy to use render manager for mac:

http://www.braverabbit.de/pipeline/

For the macs at my studio we use CGRU, which is more fully featured and rock solid reliable. But also a lot more complicated to set up (there isn’t even an officially available mac version), so pipeline would probably be your best bet.

#3

i have a pro with 4 i7s minis an if you run them jus load maya on your nodes an add them to the mr rayhosts file using the ips and they should hook up an run make sure there all on the same router as well or switch i have vray an mr an works jus fine. hope that helps