topic Re: Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render? in 3ds Max Shading, Lighting and Rendering Forum

Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render?

Haider_of_Sweden — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 15:54:01 GMT

Is Distributed Rendering replacing Network Render or are people using both of them?
Are there pros / cons in either of them or is Distributed Rendering the new technique to be used?

Re: Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render?

Haider_of_Sweden — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 15:12:12 GMT

Apparently, I was mixing things together.

"Distributed Rendering" exists only for Vray and is therefore irrelevant in general 3dsMax terms.

Re: Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render?

BenBisares — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 03:54:00 GMT

I know you marked it as solved but just to add some information, distributed rendering in general is a way to have multiple computers render a single image. This is done by distributing the individual buckets to each render node.

In broad terms, network rendering sends different images to each render node which won't really make things faster if you're just rendering one image.

Re: Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render?

Haider_of_Sweden — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 04:15:39 GMT

@BenBisares wrote:
I know you marked it as solved but just to add some information, distributed rendering in general is a way to have multiple computers render a single image. This is done by distributing the individual buckets to each render node.

In broad terms, network rendering sends different images to each render node which won't really make things faster if you're just rendering one image.

Thanks for adding clarity to the matter.

But does it mean the feature "distributed rendering" exists for other renderers than Vray e.g Arnold?

Re: Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render?

BenBisares — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 05:47:43 GMT

Mental ray had this feature but Arnold does not has this feature natively as far as I'm aware.

Re: Is the purpose of Distributed Rendering to replace Network Render?

CiroCardoso3v — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 06:39:21 GMT

You can get something like that with AWS Deadline