Net rendering/GI

[Adam Trachtenberg]

You can render GI over NET … if you know what you’re doing. You have to render the whole prepass on a single machine to avoid problems with flickering … unless you render stochastic or physical renderer.

I suggest you contact Render King. Dann, who runs it, is VERY familiar with Cinema.

I know that it’s possible for third party render managers to use GI because I worked on a project where we did it. Unfortunately I don’t know which software they used.

[Dustin Zalesky]

Thanks for the update, Dann is actually who I’m most likely hiring, and I’ve been talking with him over email. I saw several recommendations for him online… that guy gets around 😉

Thanks, yeah I was wondering if the outside render managers only need a working copy of c4d to work, or do they require c4d’s built in “net render console” to work… I don’t think mine came with that… But i heard the built in manager isn’t that great… so if i was going to purchase it i might as well do an outside one.

Here is that grocery aisle i’ve been working on that I was getting all of your advice on earlier, I was about done but now i’m reworking the order of product and a few other things… but it’s come along nicely thanks to the help from this forum. Especially on decreasing render times.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Dann was the first to put together a commercial C4D render farm many years ago and has been a Cinema user since at least R6 (probably earlier), so he’s definitely earned his reputation.