[Ernesto]

There is no way! I cannot see the preview during network rendering.
Instead I went to the folder where the JPG is being saved, and pressed F5 all the time to see the progress, but I do not think this is the way it is supposed to work.
Isn't?

Ernesto Lacalle

[insomnia3d]

Beacuse you are generating different MXI. These files would have to be merged in order to preview consistanly, imagine how ling would that take.
Besides do a little observing. Take a scene on a single 'puter and notice how long it will take it to get to lets say SL4. then render using cooperative rendering and watch that same 'puter get to SL4 in a fraction of the time.
It is really simple to guess. Just render your scene as you would normally do and watch the preview, that should give you and idea of how long you need to cook in network.

Hope this helps.

[Ernesto]

Thanks insomnia3d,

It sounds logic, so the Maxwell team should disable all the preview windows buttons and sliders in the interface, as soon as a network rendering is in process. All these useless commands made my cooperative rendering crash, because I didn''t knew they were not supposed to work.

Ernesto

[Maxer]

They also need to add some feedback info instead of just counting sample levels, I'd like to know how long it's been rendering and how much longer till it's done. A percent complete would do the trick and it can't be that hard to implement. It would also be nice if a log file was created at the time of completion so we could know how long it took to render and what if any errors occurred.

One other thing, have any of you tested to see what happens if one of your nodes goes down while cooperative rendering is going on?