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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: rambambulli on 2018-03-08, 22:12:26

Title: Can I do distributed render only on the slaves?
Post by: rambambulli on 2018-03-08, 22:12:26

Can I do a distributed render only on the slaves?

thanks

Title: Re: Can I do distributed render only on the slaves?
Post by: Frood on 2018-03-09, 08:32:47

This has been requested/asked repeatedly. You cannot do this using native Corona DR only, but you can submit a Backburner job to one machine with a scene in which other nodes are configured as dr slaves.

Related feature request:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=19393.msg121290#msg121290


Good Luck

Title: Re: Can I do distributed render only on the slaves?
Post by: naikku on 2018-03-09, 13:16:10

copy/paste from my comment before (from another thread):

Easy.
Lets assume you have computers ABCDE, BB = Backburner.
on your workstation, set DR render to use BCDE.
then send the file to BB and in BB select use only computer A.
as BB receives the job, it will use A and A will work with BCDE.

I use this method quite a lot and it lets me work on my workstation while others "DRF9BB" (Distributed Render - Renders - Backburner).

Title: Re: Can I do distributed render only on the slaves?
Post by: rambambulli on 2018-04-02, 10:38:38

Thanks guys,

I assumed it wasn't possible.
I read the other posts and used the backburner trick.
Wanted to write a simple script for baking lightmaps and render them distributed. Somehow I can't get netrender and baking to work so I thought using slave via Corona would be a solution.

I have to find an other way.

Thanks for your time guys.