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Old November 29th, 2005   #5 (permalink)
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Name: Gary Allison


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Default Re: vray dr vs. backburner

Hey guys...I've been using Vray's DR for awhile now and I love it. I've used it on VIZ 2005, max 7 and max 8. I've only got 1 license of Vray so I can only use 10 PC's but they all have Hyper threading so I get 20 buckets rendering at the same time (man is that cool to see). I use a free program called PStools to start and stop the other 9 DR computers. I created some batch files that use PStools so I don't have to wonder around my office messing around with the other computers. The only real problems that I've had with DR is that I can't get the DR computers to read the imagemaps off of the network so I have to copy them local to each PC (batch files again, but it's kind of a pain). And on really large renderings (over 4k pixels wide) some of the buckets render darker than others...seems like a memory resource problem with Vray. If you have any specific problems let me know and I might be able to help.
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