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Global Illumination & Net Rendering
Hello,
I have just set up a net render network in our office. I have been working with scenes using GI and have noticed there is a net render setting in the GI animation mode. How does this work? Does it speed up rendering times? I have been reading online about saving out a IR cache file and uploading it to the server. Can’t quite figure out how to accomplish this. Any ideas?
Justin
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Saving the Irradiance Cache you’d think would work. My understanding is that if you render your GI pre-pass on a single machine, then send that file to the server, you should be able to render via the network.
However, I’m having several problems with this myself. First- I have to send the GI prepass files in the Illum folder manually. “Save Project” does not transfer my GI pre-pass to the server automatically. Second- After I send the GI pre-pass to the server, Net-render only renders to a single computer (the server). It doesn’t distribute the GI pre-pass to all of the other computers on the server.
If I figure this out, I’ll let you know. In the meantime… theoretically, this should work. Also, my understanding is that it doesn’t matter what GI Mode you are in. I don’t believe it needs to be on IR + QMC (Net Render) in order to render GI on the server.
Hope this helps ya!
-Gabe
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