Comments on: Distributed Rendering With POV-Ray

By: SMPOV Version 4.6 Distri 3 Released at BlenderNation

SMPOV Version 4.6 Distri 3 Released at BlenderNation — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:27:51 +0000

[...] SMPOV Version 4.6 Distri 3 Released Published by etr9j on June 11th, 2006 in Version Tracker Theo Gottwald has updated his program (distributed rendering using POV-Ray and MegaPOV) to version 4.6 Distri (release candidate) 3. The man himself actually posted a comment too! Distri 3 is ready for download. New RenderAgent, should start things faster, using a random-job algorhytm. Internal changes, no more extra-minimizer. No more internal use of batch-files. Its all integrated in the new RenderAgent (which is still in developement). [...]

By: SMPOV Version 4.6 Distri 2 Released at BlenderNation

SMPOV Version 4.6 Distri 2 Released at BlenderNation — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:04:44 +0000

[...] SMPOV Version 4.6 Distri 2 Released Published by etr9j on May 13th, 2006 in Version Tracker You might recall our post about distributed rendering using POV-Ray and MegaPOV from Theo Gottwald. He's updated his program to version 4.6 Distri (release candidate) 2. Here is what has been going on since the last version: - Again new, more easy Installation. - more new Icons - Package cleaned up - RenderAgent now suggest a folder, and remembers the folder properly. - New Minimizer-Sollution, for working on the PC while it is used for Rendering. Minimizes, Hides and changes CPU-Priority. - Should work with any POV 3.5/3.6 and Mega POV 1.21 - POV-Ray 3.7 does not work with this version, it seems to produce only TGA-Files, we need BMP's to merge them. - Internal Optimizations, RenderAgent now takes Jobs faster. - Installs Icons in Startmenü, Quickstart and on Desktop. - Automatically uses POV_Settings.exe afer Installation. - Silent-Setup-Robot included - will make the complete installation without user interaction. This is just a pre-Release, which replaces the version 4.4. Final 4.6 Distri 3 release in next days after some Tests. Looking forward to 4.6 rc 3! [...]

By: Theo Gottwald

Theo Gottwald — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:10:28 +0000

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: theogott@hotmail.com

By: patdog

patdog — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 19:16:01 +0000

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 :) ]

By: etr9j

etr9j — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:58:44 +0000

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.

By: Daniel Haus

Daniel Haus — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:11:02 +0000

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 …