[pluMmet]

Ok, say that again pluMmet I don't follow?

Neat Image seems to clean up a M~R render at the expense of sharpness. It blurs the image slightly though it does get rid of the noise.

It occurs to me that if you isolate each object with a mask in Photoshop using the ObjectID map that M~R can now provide you can then use Neat Image on each object in the scene separately and all the edges still being sharp would leave a clean image.

[Maxer]

That's a great idea, I'm going to try that once I get this network rendering thing under controll. I'm also going to buy the full version of Neat Image so I can save out tiffs and have a little more controll over the image.

I did a little more testing last night; I think I had about 70 or 80 machines online. One problem I've discovered is that the Manager crash during the merge function on large jobs, I don't know what is going on there. Another very annoying bug or lack of functionality is that the manager doesn’t remember any job sent to it once it's been shut down, so it's imposable to restart anything unless you want to completely start over. It also forgets any network rendering groups you create so there only good for as long as the manager us up and running. I'm going to start the process of pulling all the MXI's together and I'll post something later today.

[howdenx2]

Hi there,

I'm setting up some network rendering and am finding, as you did, maxwell not too friendly when it comes to running the application in a network render.

Therefore i am wondering if you would you be willing to pass on your script for setting up maxwell as a service?

Kind regards

Jason

[Maxer]

At this point the script isn't mine to give away, but it shouldn’t even be necessary if NL would have taken care of business in the first place. Honestly this is the worst implementation of a network rendering setup I've ever encountered; they should be ashamed they tried to pass this off as a functional system.

[evrinc]

I'm new to cooperative rendering. Could you explain the procedure for manually merging the mxi's

thanks

[Maxer]

Basically this is how it goes:

1. Open mxcl -d
2. Click on File
3. Select Cooperative MXI
4. Pick all of your MXI files that you want to merge
5. Select a location you want to save the merged MXI to.
6. After the computer merges the files click File, then Load MXI

You will then see the product of your cooperative rendering process.

[evrinc]

got it, thanks