[David Wiffen]

Thanks for the response.

It hasnt rendered as i stopped it after taking another look at the tex folder which was actually 2gb! I have xrefs turning on and off in the scene so saving project with assets only pulls the tex and xref references for the xrefs currently turned on – annoyingly. So I’m left with having to copy the whole tex folder in the admin folder and all xrefs just to be safe. Anyway thats another point.

I’m sure it will render a smaller scene (this one is a beast) as I could see the data was being sent from server to client in both activity monitors.

I’ll do a test when things calm down and post back here.

Thanks for all your help 🙂

[David Wiffen]

“over the web” i mean

[David Wiffen]

sorry should have read more before replying – i dont think i have put my serial in net server bit on personalise.

Awesome now it’s started the job…let see if it does a frame!

Quick question regarding tex folder size…does it have to pass the whole contents of the tex to the client of the web, or just the files used at that moment in the scene?

Also does it have to pass the tex files once at the beginning or for every frame?

[David Wiffen]

Ok I’ve got port forwarding set up on client side router now. It’s forwarding 1080 (default port) forwarded to the relevant ip address for that client.

I start net client and it says connected. Strangley now though in the net server console it’s not showing a new client connected – it’s saying ‘maximum amount of net clients exceeded’ which it keeps posting every few seconds.

Before I did the port forwarding on client it would connect in client and server console but not see the job or start rendering anything.

Any ideas on that one?

[David Wiffen]

Thanks so much for your help.

I totally understand what you are saying.

I think I must have a port forwarding issue somewhere as the project never says “start rendering” it only says “Connection established”.

So what would I need to do from the client side in terms of port mapping on the router? I havent set anything up there – it’s default.

On the server end I have 8080 mapped to my computer’s mac address. This allows me to check the net render interface using my external IP and is allowing the net client to connect.

Thaks foe your help.

[David Wiffen]

When you say scene file is successfully uploaded to client…how do you mean?

My current setup is scene file and tex are only on the server computer in the administrator > user folder etc

Are you suggesting the tex files have to be on the client machines?

[David Wiffen]

Thanks for the response:

tex folder is about 250mb

Server internet connection is 1.5mb download and 0.35mb upload

Client connection is 20mb download and 1mb upload

I haven’t got any net monitoring on the client mac – any recommendations on an app for this?

[David Wiffen]

I’m reviving my thread from the dead here…

I am trying to get this to work again.

I have a connection between server at work and client at home.

I have had success in rendering a very basic scene (cube in an empty scene) across the computers remotely but when it comes to a more complex scene it just never starts rendering the job.

Is it possible the files just cant be passed across the internet between server and client fast enough?

Any more help here would be amazing. My port fowarding seems to be all in shape as everything connects.

[David Wiffen]

thanks guys – will give it a try and post back 🙂

[David Wiffen]

Thanks Adam.

Could you recommend one that’s ideal suited to cinema 4d and my setup?

Also I read somewhere upgrading my ram to 2gb per core is a good idea, so 8gb. Do u agree with that?