RenderPal V2 is a professional Render Management System, dedicated to distributed rendering across large render farms. From the artist's workstation to the rendering machines, RenderPal V2 takes care of the entire rendering pipeline. It supports more than 25 renderers and compositing applications, including Maya, Mental Ray, XSI, 3D Studio MAX, Nuke, Cinema 4D, Shake, After Effects, Realflow, Lightwave and of course Blender.
Daniel Müller wrote:
We from Shoran Software just released a new maintenance release of RenderPal V2, bringing it to version 2.3.5. This version fixes various bugs and brings several smaller new features and improvements, like the ability to pause clients, cancelling of a client reboot/shutdown and text filtering in the event log. Also, Nuke is now included with RenderPal V2 (was only available as a separate download previously).
Furthermore, to celebrate this year's summer and the holiday season, we are offering RenderPal V2 at a reduced price! Till the end of August, everyone can purchase RenderPal V2 - no matter whether they're buying just a few node licenses or an entire site license - with a discount of 15%!
Further details about this special offer, as well as more information about RenderPal V2, including screenshots, an online manual and a fully functional 30 days trial version, can be found on our website at http://www.renderpal.com#mce_temp_url#.
RenderPal is free to use for up to three rendering nodes. For more than three nodes, the license costs €40-€45/node.
12 Comments
all they want is money
@ Jahmaica, um yeah... so what. Welcome to the real world where us real people have bills to pay and mouths to feed. Making open source fanboys happy 24/7 doesn't exactly put food on the table. In fact many of you aren't even fans of open source, you just expect to be handed everything for free.
You can also use a free license for up to 3 clients.. now thats not bad for a starter..
They are really quite reasonable. Just because something has a commercial license does not make it unreasonable
.....like Rpsic said: "Welcome to the real world!" :)
Open source is, to have a choise between diffrent Application and not only have one choise because nothing else is there!
....that it is mostly free ( open source ) i find a nice side effect!
I have a newbie question:
Do I have to install Blender on all machines?
It is not clear from the manual how to setup the renderer itself.
Open source is not conflicted with making money. It simply protect intellectual property in the best way possible.
"As sure as the sun will shine tomorrow", when citizens organize a free space of creation, sellers and money makers will try to get into.
(see the comment of Jadhav33 and Cableman? Definitly involved in the business)
Just because someone leaves a positive comment doens't mean they're part of the business. Just means they're leaving positive comments.
And read a little more about the software - its not an open source anything. It's a product that supports Blender. Just because it supports Blender does not mean it's open source or free.
People are so used to free software they expect everything to be thusly so. Blender is free - and is probably the best free software I've ever seen. AND it's the only one I'd feasibility use in a business environment. RenderPal looks like a good way to tap into the renderfarm technology without spending gobs of money on projects.
I know that both the GPL and BSD licenses allow for you to make money. As I understand it, they say that if you recieve the software, you are granted access to the source code. So they can either provide a free link to the software, or you can pay for it. After either, you can get the source code. That is how I always understood it. I laugh at the people that think open source means free as in beer. Even Stallman likes to make money.
That's an interesting starter offer following in Frantic Film's Deadline render system which allows you to have two render clients for free.
May just check this out, purely to see how it works. Of course they want money, they're a company who's invested time and effort into this (from what I can see so far) solid system.
If they really were chasing the pound you'd have a time limited try before you buy with 1 master and 1 node with just 21 days to get it working and eval in.
RenderPal rocks!!
I've tested the other packages, but RenderPal is the more effective one!
For Maya etc. there is a submitter script which puts the tasks directly to RenderPal!
You can of course work with Dr. Queue! ;-))