Re: Questions about Vray Distributed Rendering
Watch the V-Ray message dialog. It will tell you if your computer successfully connects to the laptop, and it will tell you when information is being sent to the other computer. If the other computer is not responding, it will tell you that also.
You should monitor it visibly. The buckets have names on them that correspond to what computer they belong to. If your laptop successfully connects, you will see buckets that correspond to it. Don't worry if the buckets don't pop up right away, depending on the size of the scene, it may take awhile to transfer the information.
Which leads into two more things. If you see your bucket(s) for the laptop, and they never get past the first one, your laptop might be to weak to be of use. Also remember, the scene is being transfered to that computer, which is not instantaneous. It may take a few minutes depending on the file sizes.
If your scene is simple, it may take longer with distributed render because there is additional time for identifying computers, and transferring files. If your scene is complex, it may take longer because your desktop may be able to compute the entire scene, and render it out before you laptop can finish one bucket.
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