Regarding render farms. Deadline or Backburner?

[khazuma]

Backburner and Deadline are commonly mentioned as software capable of managing various rendering tasks. However, can either of these solutions connect to a farm using DR (Distributed Rendering) when working with 3ds Max 2025 and Corona 12 Hotfix 1? 
From what I’ve read in various articles, it seems Backburner does not support this, and Deadline only goes up to 3ds Max 2022.

If no solution is available, does anyone know of any software that can utilize a DR server? 
I would really appreciate hearing everyone’s thoughts.

[Tom]

Hi,

I used to work in a studio that used Deadline as their job submitting software, and so far as I remember it did support DR rendering. But it was back in 2018, and given what you say it's not working anymore. This is strange. I'd be curious to know why they don't support this option anymore?

I don't know if there's any kind of solution to make Backburner working with DR but, eventough, this really is something of the past, and unless you like 90's looking like interface, I don't recommend it :))

Did you try Pulze Render Manager? Awesome software. Easy to use: https://www.pulze.io/products/render-manager?trk=test

[khazuma]

Hi Tom
Thanks for the reply.
I still think Deadline looks difficult.

Pulze you recommended, but it takes me a bit of time to read it, so if you don't mind, I'd like you to answer my question.
Is it possible to have a still image render to farm only and still render in DR?

[Tom]

Sorry, I'm not sure to understand your question.
If you send a job to an online render farm, there's no need to send it as a DR job: the job will be distributed by the render farm itself over all its available nodes.

[khazuma]

Sorry for the lack of clarity.

I want to render a single still image with DR.
If I use DR normally, my PC will participate in the rendering, right?
I want to throw that as a job to Pulze's render manager, for example, and have multiple farms render one image in a distributed manner!

[maru]

Distributed rendering:
- with Corona DR only (no 3rd party render managers) - your workstation machine and all render nodes are all rendering a single frame
- with Backburner - generally Backburner is intended for "each machine renders a different frame" scenarios. There are some users who used Backburner with Corona DR, however we don't officially support this.
- with Deadline nad Corona DR - Deadline is an advanced tool and it allows you to either render a single frame using multiple machines (with Corona DR) or distributed different frames among different machines
- with Pulze and Corona DR - as far as I know, the same capabilities as Deadline

[khazuma]

Thanks!
I'll give Pulze a try for now!

Appreciate the advice, Maru and Tom!