[Bf-committers] Can blender do partial frame rendering?

[Jake Kauth]

Hi James,

This also crossed my mind as I have been building my
home render farm this week; after getting blender render, cycles,
and luxrender network distribution working, I wondered if there
is a cycles features that lets me distribute "sub frame rendering"
to the network farm; this is something that luxrender does today
and is a great feature.

Also, on a side note, I have several patches to upgrade the netrender
web UI and fix some glaring usability issues; is there a netrender
maintainer who can help me review the changes?

jake
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On 9/21/13, 2:51 PM, James Yonan wrote:
> On the blender command line page, I don't see any mention of options for
> rendering a portion of a frame, just whole frames.
>
> I ask because I'm working on a render farm script, and I was wondering
> if it might be possible via blender command line to break up a single
> frame into smaller rectangles that would be rendered on different nodes
> in the farm.
>
> Or is the minimum unit of render work controllable from the command line
> a single frame?
>
> James
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