[Bf-committers] Single frame netrender

[Jeroen Bakker]

Hi,

they are an architecture company and use blender internal renderer. tile 
dispatching over nodes is a very complex task and IMO not optimal for 
rendering times. many calculations needs to be done multiple times or 
transported between machines. Texture need to be tiled etc. I am very 
aware of gustafson's law.

The simple netrender products (Yadra) can not handle single frame jobs. 
DrQueue is capable of doing this, but is not that easy to configure and 
control. For studios this feature is not that useful and I agree that 
people can misunderstood this as per tile render dispatching but that is 
not my goal.

Jeroen.




On 04/30/2010 02:39 PM, Martin Poirier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are you sure they didn't mean they wanted to be able to render a single frame on more than one machine?
>
> For tile dispatch, what's needed is a way to specify the rendered tile on command line as well as a way to load render results per tile (or at least an easy way to recomposite the full frame).
>
> Martin
> PS: The change you did is fine for sure, but it don't think it's usually what people think of when they talk about distributed rendering of single frames.
>
> --- On Fri, 4/30/10, Jeroen Bakker<j.bakker at atmind.nl>  wrote:
>
>    
>> From: Jeroen Bakker<j.bakker at atmind.nl>
>> Subject: [Bf-committers] Single frame netrender
>> To: "bf-blender developers"<bf-committers at blender.org>
>> Received: Friday, April 30, 2010, 2:52 AM
>> Hi all,
>>
>> A company contacted me to make a netrenderer what supported
>> single frame
>> jobs. Looking in the code I found out that the fix was very
>> easy so
>> created a patch for it. It sends the current frame as a job
>> to netrender.
>>
>> https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22211&group_id=9&atid=127
>>
>> regards,
>> Jeroen
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