[Gabe Juhnke]

The only reason I didn’t do the cache with the clients is because I’ve read a lot about flickering issues when doing this. I’ll try doing a few tests on a much shorter animation (say 30 frames) and post my progress.

Again, thank you so much for the help!

-Gabe

[Gabe Juhnke]

Good idea Adam! I hadn’t thought of that. I’ll see if it works.

Thanks!
Gabe

[Gabe Juhnke]

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