Comments on: Building a Render Farm on a Budget – 3DSMAX – Vray http://alanlife.com/building-a-render-farm-on-a-budget-3dsmax-vray/ where I think about stuff Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Patrick http://alanlife.com/building-a-render-farm-on-a-budget-3dsmax-vray/#comment-759 Patrick Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://www.alanlife.com/?p=5#comment-759 Hi! I found your post really interesting, and i would like to know if I should install 3dsMax as a trial for my render node, if i am not using backburner? Those computers will run Max in render mode only... I just wanna know if I have to install my license of 3dsMax that I bought to my render nodes, or should I install the nodes in trial only to prevent license conflict? Because I heard that if i dont need GUI interface to render, i just have to send a command line job of 3dsMax to the render node, and the trial will never "expires".... Is it true? Hi! I found your post really interesting, and i would like to know if I should install 3dsMax as a trial for my render node, if i am not using backburner? Those computers will run Max in render mode only… I just wanna know if I have to install my license of 3dsMax that I bought to my render nodes, or should I install the nodes in trial only to prevent license conflict? Because I heard that if i dont need GUI interface to render, i just have to send a command line job of 3dsMax to the render node, and the trial will never “expires”…. Is it true?

]]> By: Anonymous http://alanlife.com/building-a-render-farm-on-a-budget-3dsmax-vray/#comment-751 Anonymous Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:12:00 +0000 http://www.alanlife.com/?p=5#comment-751 The first thing you need to do is make sure that your network is all setup properly and the computers can communicate with each other. You need to make sure you can PING each PC. What version of 3DSMAX are you running? The first thing you need to do is make sure that your network is all setup properly and the computers can communicate with each other.

You need to make sure you can PING each PC.

What version of 3DSMAX are you running?

]]> By: Anonymous http://alanlife.com/building-a-render-farm-on-a-budget-3dsmax-vray/#comment-750 Anonymous Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:50:00 +0000 http://www.alanlife.com/?p=5#comment-750 hi thank you for the great effort to make things clear abt farms... i want to build my own render farm and i need your help plz... im doing my own short film and scene become more nd more heavy . mental ray crash all the time in final render . im using 3ds max . Photoshop and after effects . so im planning to build a workstation first with 2x AMD opteron , 24 gb ddr3 , 2 tb sata , fx 1800 win 7 or xp . the nodes for the farm will be around 6 hp compaq desktop dc 7800 core 2 quad 2.4 , 8gb ram and 500 hard drive (no graphics card no dvd no sound ) i know they will be connected via network cable ... so can u explain to me plz how to set them up and what i still need more ... hi thank you for the great effort to make things clear abt farms… i want to build my own render farm and i need your help plz…
im doing my own short film and scene become more nd more heavy . mental ray crash all the time in final render . im using 3ds max . Photoshop and after effects . so im planning to build a workstation first with 2x AMD opteron , 24 gb ddr3 , 2 tb sata , fx 1800 win 7 or xp . the nodes for the farm will be around 6 hp compaq desktop dc 7800 core 2 quad 2.4 , 8gb ram and 500 hard drive (no graphics card no dvd no sound ) i know they will be connected via network cable … so can u explain to me plz how to set them up and what i still need more …

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