To set up mental ray network rendering
- Ensure that you have networked workstations.
The slave machines must be accessible on the network where the master
machine is installed.
- Ensure that any firewall software is
not interfering with the operation of your network rendering software.
- Ensure that all necessary services (for
mental ray standalone or Satellite) are running.
- Set up your master machine by creating
a rayhost file. Ensure that it is located in the right directory.
You can set up your master machine using mental ray standalone or
mental ray for Maya.
For more information,
see:
- Install mental ray standalone or mental
ray for Maya Satellite on each slave machine. All slave machines
require mental ray for Maya Satellite or mental ray standalone.
If you have multiple
versions of mental ray standalone installed (not recommended), each
must have their own TCP port number in the services file to avoid
conflict. For more information, see
mental ray standalone.
- Set up your slave machine(s) by following
these instructions:
Slave machine setup.
- To verify which hosts file is being read,
and which render slaves are being used, use the mentalrayrender
command with a verbosity setting of 4 or higher. For more information,
see
Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 1).
- To submit a render job, follow these
instructions:
Submit a job to render over the network.