I have a question about satellite rendering via Mental Ray in Maya 2009. I understand I have access to 8 cpu's via my standalone copy. Is this referring to the number of physical sockets/cpu's or the number of cores on a single socket/cpu? Thanks in advance for any clarification. 😄
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I would upgrade to Maya 2011 and use the Mayabatch licensing for mental ray. This would include 5 systems regardless of the # of CPUs. Also, you can use Backburner to submit the jobs. It is a queue manager that is included in Maya 2010/2011.
mental ray Satellite is actually better for IPR rendering (single frame) for previewing. If you submit a render job via Satellite, I have seen on occasion longer render times because it needs to send/receive buckets of info back and forth between the master and slave computers. You may have noticed when your use IPR and you have selected mental ray, it renders 1 square at a time (bucket). That bucket is what is being sent to the slave computers.
Mayabatch is basically a full install of Maya. Using Mayabatch is basically running Maya without the UI so that you can render using mental ray.
Hi,
I asked Dave to respond on this thread as I am not a Maya expert but understand that the node type of render farm is a better option than satellite. I asked Dave to respond to you based his on knowledge and experience with Maya and its rendering options. My belief is that you are better served by setup and configuration rather than a per-incident support call. It is not my intention to market to you an upsell.
Currently the forum community for Maya users is on the Area. You may be interested in checking out that forum and see what users are recommending for farms and configurations. You will find a preference for node farms in this community.
I am sorry for any dissatisfaction I may have caused you.
Douglas