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Slave machine setup
Network rendering using Satellite and Standalone
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