[John Layne]

Just had a little test of network rendering, without much success.

My main machine with Server and Manager running seemed to be doing something the other server said render failed (something to do with not being able to find a bitmap).

Basically I don't know what I'm doing and the manual is not particularly helpful, I need a step by step instruction guide. I haven't asked before, as every one seemed to be having problems with V1.0. Now it's fixed in V1.1, it would be nice to be able to use it.

A few dumb questions.

Can network rendering be started by clicking the render button in studio, if so what buttons do I push and or what command line options do I need to add in from within studio (The command line thingy seems unnecessarily complicated to me).

If I can’t start network rendering from within studio which switches do I have to start mxcl with? I wish this thing had GUI.

Is it possible to view the network render as it’s rendering with the –d switch?

How do I let it know where the textures and bump maps are (as it doesn’t seem bright enough to figure this out for itself even though it knows the IP addresses of the servers)?

[John Layne]

Ok -- what about just giving me a few hints then?

[deadalvs]

the best there is...

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=14519

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it's clear what there is described, but i have problems with my network that the servers disconnect again and again.

i need help here too !

we need officials in here... *help*

WHICH options of windows are important?
does network rendering work now also with macs and pcs together?
... ?

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deadalvs

[bracesport]

i found that the network renderer works with files that do not have bitmaps attached. im guessing its still not complete yet. or there is a secret to where the texture file need to be housed...

[deadalvs]

You sure?

because the nloffice.mxs (content folder) has no textures but still doesn't work fine over the network...

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deadalvs

[John Layne]

Thanks - I had a quick read of that, not sure all of it is relevant to V1.1 but I'll work through it this evening.

I'm so used to having a GUI for everything these days, command line instructions seem a little painful.

[bracesport]

i have definately made the network render work on three pcs...

as i said im not sure whether there was any percievable value when i reasembled the image...