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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| For more information about advanced command line flags for the Network, type in mxnetwork -help on your command window. |