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Hobo Monstrocity · May 13th, 2008

Iaga, you can do it both ways. Vray 1.5 works fine installed on a PC running Backerburner server. You need to set up the license on the rendering PCs to look for the Vray Dongle on whatever PC you have it installed on, otherwise Vray won't allow the rendering to continue.

Alternativly, you can use the Vray Distributed Rendering. DR is extreemly annoying to set up the first time, but once you get it going I have noticed a small increase in performance over backburner. There are disadvantages to DR. One being that you can't continue to work on your PC while Vray is rendering (COFFEE/SMOKING BREAK!!!! - delete as appropriate), and also DR is a bit unreliable. For example, I have about 10 PCs setup to use it and even though all of them are using the same network paths for materials, almost always, one or more of the PCs will not load the materials. annoying.

anyways, I use both methods. Depending on the situation, but 90% of my rendering is done through Backburner.

Setting up Vray to do Distributed Rendering is a bit tricvky, especially since the method documented in the Vray help files is incorrect. I recommend Googling it.

May 13th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
Hobo Monstrocity Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Dublin Age: 37 Posts: 85 Name: Conor Clancy	Re: VRAY Network Render or Backburner Iaga, you can do it both ways. Vray 1.5 works fine installed on a PC running Backerburner server. You need to set up the license on the rendering PCs to look for the Vray Dongle on whatever PC you have it installed on, otherwise Vray won't allow the rendering to continue. Alternativly, you can use the Vray Distributed Rendering. DR is extreemly annoying to set up the first time, but once you get it going I have noticed a small increase in performance over backburner. There are disadvantages to DR. One being that you can't continue to work on your PC while Vray is rendering (COFFEE/SMOKING BREAK!!!! - delete as appropriate), and also DR is a bit unreliable. For example, I have about 10 PCs setup to use it and even though all of them are using the same network paths for materials, almost always, one or more of the PCs will not load the materials. annoying. anyways, I use both methods. Depending on the situation, but 90% of my rendering is done through Backburner. Setting up Vray to do Distributed Rendering is a bit tricvky, especially since the method documented in the Vray help files is incorrect. I recommend Googling it.