Comments on: Yadra – Yet Another Distributed Rendering App

By: Eric Jang

Eric Jang — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:22:46 +0000

Can somebody leave a detailed explanation on how to set yadra up for mac OS X?
I'm a complete noob when it comes to java virtual machine installations, so I need a walkthrough :(
I'm terribly sorry.

By: bikermusician

bikermusician — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:39:05 +0000

Nice App!!! Now if I could only get the web interface to work :(

Every time I connect from a browser (on any machine on local network)…
I get a window that says

FORBIDDEN

RequestURI=/

If I could get the Web interface to work, this would be a GREAT app.

Running on Ubuntu Server 8.04

By: vbot

vbot — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:42:26 +0000

Cool! I've spent last 2 days trying to get DrQueue running on Windows… forget it :(. Though it must be a great renderer, cause used alot by the industry? hmm… I'm going to try the ones mentioned in the comments above! Thanks! :)

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:26:38 +0000

Don't press ctrl+W here. haha

By: BlendMaster

BlendMaster — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:35:17 +0000

it ried DrQueue, farmerjoe, yadra, then blendermans render script, and a couple of others, including on from hazard but i have to say, i liuk this one the most so far, i guess its the interface or sumething, but its really easy to set up, adding slaves is a breeze, and i like that you can specify the ports and all that. so yeah, i liek it :)

By: birs93

birs93 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:13:55 +0000

lol i tought it said disturbed XD

By: Oliver Schulze

Oliver Schulze — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:49:25 +0000

Hi,

a new version of yadra is available on http://blendoli.googlepages.com/yadra. Heres a list of changes:

- implemented multiple-jobs rendering
- added a new background image
- show up all active slaves (even if there are no jobs)
- added the possibility to remove inactive slaves from list
- reordered the done-list (newest on top)
- added multiple output-formats (png, jpeg, …)
- made the web-ui more flexible, now it is possible to put the templates in subdirectories
- added rendering time
- added pause for slaves (all the time, not only for one job)
- removed some bugs, regarding the rendering process/made the process more stable
- made it possible to render multiple jobs with the same name
- worked-over the code, switched to Subversion (on Sourceforge) and Eclipse
- fixed error, when master wanted to move the work folder, and the slaves wrote into it, that didn't work
- Fixed connect timeout error (could lead to a deadlock on the slaves): added timeout to socket connect
- Fixed problem of config (passphares was not recognized when creating a new slave)
- Fixed Problem, when setting the work directory to the same as the start directory (resulted in 0-Byte Filesin Web-Directory)

Have fun using it!

By: an8kid

an8kid — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:00:03 +0000

wow…
i just got round to trying this today….
its sooo slow… it was so much quicker rendering on my PC than on this render farm…

By: Reaction

Reaction — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:05:57 +0000

I create AVI Raw files ready for conversion to WMV. So all I need is a program on the master that can be given the relative speeds of each machine (including itself!); then calculate how many frames each machine should do; then send a simple command (over a network connection) to invoke identical Blender installations (with the necessary .blend files also local on each slave machine). When any machine finishes, it sends a message back to the master, which then tells that slave to copy its rendered AVI chunk back to a shared folder on the master.

If that's *not* what these render farm managers do, then I think it's time I learned Python or reawakened my Visual Basic skills!

By: Aussiedude

Aussiedude — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:57:16 +0000

I had a go at using the frameserver to setup a renderfarm of sorts when I was in high school last year. The computer lab I was in had 32 computers with this setup:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz – Dual Core!
RAM: 2GB

With basically 64 processors around me I couldn't miss the chance to make a renderfarm. So I got my blend file, put it on the network. Opened the file on all computers and got the list of their IP's from my teacher. I wrote a C++ script that made a html file with a link to every frame in my animation with each computer rendering a near equal number of frames (about 250 frames so about 8 frames per computer). Then I used a download manager for firefox just to download all the links to frames in order with 32 frames downloading at a time. So that every computer was being used. Then I just downloaded all the frames to a laptop that was connected to the network.

It took a while to setup but it was worth it, worked like a charm when done. I probably did things the long way but I did so because:
1. I don't understand the so-called 'simple' renderfarm scripts and tools for blender
2. I didn't have the time nor the desire to write a script or tool myself that did all this automatically, I didn't think I would be doing it again either, so I just did it all manually.