Distributed Rendering With POV-Ray

Posted on April 11, 2006 by Eugene (etr9j)

The POV-Ray site has recently updated their news site with a range of nice bits of information as well as distributed rendering solutions. One that certainly should draw the Blender community’s eyes is a newly updated tool from Theo Gottwald.

Theo has certainly been busy with his newest version of SMPOV, an add-on for SMP and distributed network rendering for POV-Ray 3.6 and Mega-POV 1.1. It supports multiple rendering topologies and the site itself has some great instructions for use and benchmark tests. Currently for Windows only, this tool will certainly give a boost to POV-Ray users.

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http://ematia.de Daniel Haus

Great thing to hear. Some weeks ago I spent some hours getting drqueue to work between my Macs and Linux-machines. I gave up. Hope this one will be available for non-windows-users soon. Or better, maybe one day the “Render Daemon”-button will work as (most widely) expected and as pleasant as those other nifty features of our beloved 3d package …
etr9j

I’ve never been able to get Dr. Queue to work on Windows. That’s why I’m glad to see other options like this one, especially since POVRay is being used a lot more thanks to the integrated Blend2POV.
patdog

Haven’t tried POV-ray yet, but note for etrj9j, we got DR queue working at our office and published full documentation for Windows on Elysiun. The site [Elysiun password not accepted ???] doing something weird right now so can’t acces link, but do a search on ‘Other software’and you’ll find our link to the instructions. [Download it while it's there :) ]
http://www.it-berater.org Theo Gottwald

While writing this, I am testing on 3 CPU’s (AMD X2-4400+, + 1xAMD 3500+ over network), and thinking of improvements for last version of SMPOV for POVRAY 3.61c.

In distributed rendering all instances must have access to a shared folder. Experience shows that this is a point to look at if it doesn’t work as expected, in 90% of the cases the shared folder is not the same or does not have write permissions etc..

I hope on more feedback from you all, wheter you can make it work or in case you need help.
You can always reach me on MSN-Messenger: [email protected]
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