I had been working on a project when the virus messed it all up. Now, the project is back on track and I am upgrading all my systems to get the best of what exists now. I never stopped supporting the project even though I did not use it. Knowing I would be back eventually.
I have a heavy scene using smoke and fire with cycles. Do I still need to manually copy the physics cache to the other nodes, or will the sync now do that as well?
Hi Michael,
You could do that, or you could setup a shared folder or NAS which would allow you to host the files on your network without having to either pack or relocate them. There is a slight performance penalty for this, but it is most likely outweighed by the fact that you can very easily update the caches if you need to and they will be automatically updated on each node.
I can give guidance on how to do this, can you share what OS you are using on each node? This makes a difference as Blender just stores paths to each cache as a string, so mixing OS types in your render nodes needs a little extra finessing.