[brodie_geers]

One of the main detractors that stops me from using the network render option more (besides a serious unresolved bug http://maxwellrender.com/forum/viewtopi ... t=+network ) is the fact that you have to manually ask for a preview and when you do, it takes quite awhile to get.

It would be nice to have a built-in preview window, even if it were just the size of the normal render preview. It could even just use the host computers render to preview rather than having to continually merge renders to generate a preview.

-Brodie

[polynurb]

hi brodie,

there is a sort of workaround for that.. i also don't like the preview the way it works now.. especially for coop-renders.

it takes very long for bigger files.

in order to permanently see the image rendered (and to retrieve single .mxi in case of network crash or manuall merging)
i share the "mxnetwork" or "rendernode" folders on the nodes, and map them via network drive on my workstation.

if you browse to the nodes folder and point the mouse to the image file in eg. xnview, you will see the image updating as every sampling level is written to .png (or whatever format you defined).

of course this is only previewing a single machine, for coop.. merging is the only way.. but it is much faster if you do it manually on a computer with 2 fast hdds than letting the network do it automated.

daniel

[Fernando Tella]

Also, you can go to the render node window > File menu > Open temp folder. It takes you where that node is storing its work and where the image is being saved during render.