I've got some issues with choice 2 (above). I have set up my blender file to use relative file paths to my external textures and smoke bakes and using my "G-drive" as a shared folder but it seems that my node don't respect that??? In other words do the "relative file path" get synced? Any suggestions?
By the way I've subscribed to your 4$ donation fund cos that's what i can afford at the moment. I really like this addon, and I hope you guys will keep up the good work you've done so far.
Hi there, yeaaahhhh, I see what's happened, you got the missing pink bits.... always a pain when that happens.
Ok, so I am guessing that you might be new to the whole distributed rendering thing? If you have pink it just means that the textures you had applied to the material were not packed before you connected.
Across most, if not all render farm software, you either have an asset manager, or you pack your assets into one file before you start rendering. this way all the data is available to all of the nodes.
You have a couple of choices to fix this here.
1. Pack the images used for the texture into the blend file, then (with all your computers connected) press the crowdrender "Resync" button. This will send the file to the other computers again, but now with the textures included.
2. Setup a NAS or shared folder. If you are not sure what I just said there, I'd recommend option 1 to save you a lot of headaches.
Basically if you are a pro, or aspiring pro, option 2 is more flexible for production. But a pain in the arse sometimes to setup. Option 1 is easy and doesn't take very long to do. Its almost two clicks.
let me know if this fixes the problem. I am 99.99999999% sure option 1 will work, so if it doesn't then I must be really lucky!
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I use 2 render layers. One background and one foreground. Which i mix in compositing...
Hello James & Co!
I've got some issues with choice 2 (above). I have set up my blender file to use relative file paths to my external textures and smoke bakes and using my "G-drive" as a shared folder but it seems that my node don't respect that??? In other words do the "relative file path" get synced? Any suggestions?
By the way I've subscribed to your 4$ donation fund cos that's what i can afford at the moment. I really like this addon, and I hope you guys will keep up the good work you've done so far.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Hi there, yeaaahhhh, I see what's happened, you got the missing pink bits.... always a pain when that happens.
Ok, so I am guessing that you might be new to the whole distributed rendering thing? If you have pink it just means that the textures you had applied to the material were not packed before you connected.
Across most, if not all render farm software, you either have an asset manager, or you pack your assets into one file before you start rendering. this way all the data is available to all of the nodes.
You have a couple of choices to fix this here.
1. Pack the images used for the texture into the blend file, then (with all your computers connected) press the crowdrender "Resync" button. This will send the file to the other computers again, but now with the textures included.
2. Setup a NAS or shared folder. If you are not sure what I just said there, I'd recommend option 1 to save you a lot of headaches.
Basically if you are a pro, or aspiring pro, option 2 is more flexible for production. But a pain in the arse sometimes to setup. Option 1 is easy and doesn't take very long to do. Its almost two clicks.
let me know if this fixes the problem. I am 99.99999999% sure option 1 will work, so if it doesn't then I must be really lucky!