Re: screamernet question

Hi James,

Thanks for the info - I wasn't sure if the master machine had to be in the 'rendering process' in order to use the other render nodes. I had heard of Lightnet but not Spider - I am off to hunt that one down now as I thought there wasn't a free way of doing frame splitting (I know BNR and others can do that - but a lot of money for my needs). So thanks for that too.

I set up Vue5i the other day and that was very easy - so hopefully this will be the same.

Thanks again
Steve

James Willmott wrote:
Steve Reeves wrote:

Hi all, I wonder if somebody could point me in the right direction with this.

I have never set up a screamer net before and was wondering if I could use it to render images on a second PC that I have in the house thus freeing up the master PC for other things.

I have 1 x AMD64 dual core and 1 x Intel P4. The AMD machines runs XP Pro and the Intel box is XP Home. The machines are networked.

What I would like to do is to set up the scene etc. on the AMD machine and then get the other machine to render the image whilst I do whatever on the AMD machine. The dongle would need to stay on the AMD box as this is the main day to day machine.

Is this possible with a single LW user license? If so is there a recommended render manager out there that makes it easy to set up?

Appreciate any thoughts. Thanks.
Steve

You don't need a new licence, I wouldn't bother with a render manager for a small farm, but if you want one, both Spider and Lightnet are free. Or you can use LW's built in render controller, which is fine for small jobs. Spider CAN handle frame splitting though, so that's good for large single images. Your dongle stays on your main machine.

Easily done, ask about it if you have trouble.

jw.
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