[Bf-committers] Single frame netrender

[Martin Poirier]

Alright then, if you're sure that's what they want, everything's peachy. :)

I'll apply the patch and make the required UI changes tomorrow.

thanks

Martin

--- On Fri, 4/30/10, Jeroen Bakker <j.bakker at atmind.nl> wrote:

> From: Jeroen Bakker <j.bakker at atmind.nl>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Single frame netrender
> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Received: Friday, April 30, 2010, 11:46 AM
> 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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