Author Topic: Corona and Team Render?  (Read 5909 times)

2014-09-08, 14:51:48

artdude12

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Was wondering if this is possible yet? I tried the Kitchen test scene on my 3930K cpu machine. Rendertime took 40 min.
That seems a bit excessive. Corona and a DR scenario (team render) would (or maybe should) help reduce rendertimes.

2014-09-08, 15:50:09
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hankusp

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It would be even much better if we can have DR possibility without TeamRender - for people having C4D Prime (like me )
In VrayC4D it is possible. We install Vray standalone on render nodes.

2014-09-08, 16:15:07
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pBarrelas

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Yes, distributed rendering without team render, would be awesome!

2014-09-08, 20:54:39
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Han

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I tried the Kitchen test scene on my 3930K cpu machine. Rendertime took 40 min.
40 minutes, it really is very fast. Vray for a time does not give a photorealistic image. Octane to cope over this time will need two graphics cards Titan.
Corona currently moments fastest rendering.

2014-09-08, 22:29:09
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artdude12

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Hi Han,

>40 minutes, it really is very fast.<

Let me rephrase, 40 minutes is a bit excessive for my needs.
The rendered image size of the test file was set at 1200 x 675 @ 72ppi.
The people I work for would consider that size to be OK for a preview.
They would prefer to see 3200 x 1800 or larger and much larger for
final renders. Also I'm required to provide different camera angles, about 6 - 10
views. So at the original file size (1200 x 675) I would expect it to take at least 4 hours (six images) and over six hours for 10 images.
Back to the test file: I bumped the render output to 3200 x 1800 @ 72ppi. It's been going for almost 50 minutes and is at pass 7 and there's still too much noise in the image.

I'm guessing that some kind of DR system for Corona would speed things up.
I don't have a dual xeon machine available for rendering (would be nice), but I do have 3 other PC's available that have a hex core cpu. So I would think my little render farm would work a bit faster than one machine.

>Vray for a time does not give a photorealistic image.<

You're kidding, right?


>Octane to cope over this time will need two graphics cards Titan.<

I will attempt to convert the Corona file to an Octane format to see what happens.
My Octane render machine has 3 Titans.
I admit that Octane has to work a little harder at getting interiors to look nice.