In high-end productions, it is often necessary to distribute a render job over a number of machines in a farm to quickly obtain all the frames needed for a sequence or to calculate a very large image. Maxwell Render’s networking capabilities are very powerful (more computers equals more speed in a very linear way), and very flexible - networking is multi-platform allowing a mixture of Windows, Mac and Linux systems to be connected together. The software’s wizard system makes setting a network job a straightforward task. With networking, you can tell Maxwell to render the same image on all your computers (cooperative rendering), or each computer can render one frame of an animation.
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You must install Maxwell Render on all the computers you plan to use as nodes for network rendering, and using the same license file to license all of them - as described in the Licensing page. |
Introduction to network rendering
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This is extremely useful in case special cases, like if you want to connect your Monitor (or a Rendernode) to a specific Manager if there is you have more than one Manager in the same network, or if the Manager is in a different subnet. In that case you will have to launch that Monitor via command line indicating , and indicate the IP of the Manager to be connected, in the way:
mxnetwork.exe -monitor:xxx.xxx.x.xx or
mxnetwork.exe -monitor:[name]
where xxxwhere xxx.xxx.x.xx and [name] are the IP or the name of the Manager, respectively.
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mxnetwork.exe - monitor:192.168.0.12 |
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| For more information about advanced command line flags for the Network, type in mxnetwork -help on your command window. |