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Slave machine setup
Network rendering
Dynamic Attributes for mental ray for Maya
Submit a job to render over the network
Once you are set up,
the process of rendering over the network is fully automatic so
that every render you invoke from a client machine is automatically distributed
over the network.
To
network render a Maya scene within Maya on a master machine
- Ensure
that the maya.rayhosts file
has the name of all mental ray network rendering slaves you wish
to use (see
Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 1)).
- Start
Maya, open a scene and select
Render > Render Using > mental ray.
- Select
Render > Render Current Frame.
- To
verify that the slave machines are being used, select
Render > Render Current Frame > (or
Render > Batch Render> ) and
select Progress Messages from the Verbosity
Level drop-down list.
You should see messages in the console window
(or in the mental ray log file for batch render) telling you which
slave machines were connected and which machine is being used to
render particular tiles.
To
network render a Maya scene with Maya from the command line on a master
machine
- Ensure
that the maya.rayhosts file
has the name of all mental ray network rendering slaves you wish
to use (see
Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 1)).
- From
a command prompt window, change to the directory where your Maya
scene resides.
- Type
the following:
Render -r mr sceneName.mb
To
network render with a mental images (.mi) scene with mental ray
standalone on a master machine
- This
works with mental ray standalone only; this operation is not supported
for mental ray for Maya Satellite.
Ensure that the maya.rayhosts file
has the name of all mental ray network rendering slaves you wish
to use (see
Set up a master machine with mental ray standalone (method 1)).
- From
a command prompt window, change to the directory where your .mi file resides.
- Type
the following:
mentalrayrender myFile.mi
- To
get progress messages to show how the slave machines are being used, type
the following command:
mentalrayrender -verbose 5 myFile.mi