[Bf-committers] Savepath commandline option

[Campbell Barton]

Daniel Fairhead wrote:

>>The random order would be good for a setup rendering- say with 50 PC,s > working on the same file- If you on a 100mbits network with 
>>some traffic its possible, if each PC starts at the same time 
>>with frame 1, that theyll both try to render the same file, with 
>>the network filesystem not updating in time.
>>- So it greatly reduces the  possibility of 2 PC's trying to render
>>the same image at  exactly the same time (not That likely anyway)
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>thats just silly.
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>just set each machine to render a different section of the movie, or have the render daemon control it.
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True enough- but how do  you know how long it will take to render a 
sectioin of the movie??
if you do that then some PCs may finish first while others are still 
left with frames to render.

This is simple and a little hackish but it removes the need for a 
renderdeamon. (Which still dosent work properly AFAIK)
It would be a simple solution to a renderfarm where no special software 
would be required.

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