Awesome, thank you for showing how to do this. I have a loads of computers at my disposal and will definitely get this going.
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
It’s really great especially for animation work.
@charliemcgrain3 жыл бұрын
I just use the open GL for testing the animation. Also, you can get slightly different image quality from mixing GPU and CPU renders, that can cause flicker in your animation, best to be uniform and just use one or the other, obviously GPU is best. But great info. Thanks.
@blendpinexus14162 жыл бұрын
oh yeah, i always test a quick preview form of the animation to see if the cpu and gpu will produce different results for that particular animation.
@mooooooon92964 жыл бұрын
special and unique content ! thank you .
@MichaelBridges3D4 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it.
@funtv56933 жыл бұрын
hahhah i nearly melted my brain lol. ithought you weregoingo do a network render lol.
@davemcbride1492 жыл бұрын
Brilliant, why didnt I think of this before? Being trying for years to get Crowdrender to work with no success, plus it stores 100MB exr files of every frame, eating up your hard drive in a 2000 frame render!
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
Really glad it has helped you!
@aegisgfx3 ай бұрын
Flemenco is a much better process to use these days
@AndrewConway3 жыл бұрын
Good Stuff! I have marked this video in my "Point of Reference" favorites in Save-To
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you! Glad you enjoyed it :D
@DeejayJeanP11 күн бұрын
Does this still work today? Great video!
@MichaelBridges3D9 күн бұрын
Yes it does! And I still use this if I have a large animation to do :-)
@DeejayJeanP9 күн бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D Awesome, thank you for getting back to me! Actually rendered a video this morning but just broke the project off into two scenes and had one PC render one scene, and another render another haha. Thank you again for this video!
@simpernchong2 жыл бұрын
Nice video. I thought you are going to do some cloud rendering. 😄
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
@euricoakbarrabbani3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Man! This is help me a lot
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Glad it helped!
@tegolley2 жыл бұрын
im the viewer number 9,000 .... it's over 9 thousand thanks bro
@artist3d3 жыл бұрын
how you do that? how you connect all computer?
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
All the computers have access to the same file and out put fold. I use a NAS, you could use dropbox as well or google drive / one drive etc ... any synchronisation service will do, then all the computers would need to be on the internet.
@artist3d3 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D thanks 🙏🏻, how you give render order ?
@FloppyFish2 жыл бұрын
This is a really good idea and might just save my production. I just have one question, so if I were to render all of the files to the same place (I think I'm going to use Google Drive like you recommended) to get the placeholder method to work, how exactly would I go about setting Blender to output to Google Drive? Because it is not a regular folder in the File Explorer like a Network Attached Storage device would be.
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
YEs that should work, providing GoogleDrive will sync quickly enough to all the computers. Personally I would use a NAS or one of the PCs on the Local Network as the storage location .
@nicolanarracci Жыл бұрын
Great. :)
@neilmarshall50874 жыл бұрын
You need to not have the render window showing. There is no actual need for it to be visible - the render bar shows the progress. Each frame renders faster if it is hidden.
@MichaelBridges3D4 жыл бұрын
Neil Marshall Great tip! You can increase it further by rendering in headless mode too. 👍
@electricpictures1003 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D excellent just what I was looking for. Thank you
@lebenin36043 жыл бұрын
Wow. I will try this. Thanks for sharing this. #blender
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure 😊
@sherlockhomes99192 жыл бұрын
Blender doesn't have a decent network render controller. Lmao
@selfmade95463 жыл бұрын
hahaha maniac love the pasion
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Got to have fun :D
@TheStevoth3 жыл бұрын
Helpful Video.
@1youssefadelone1984 жыл бұрын
Please videos about "basics of making an environment" Thank you for reading this comment
@1youssefadelone1984 жыл бұрын
Make videos about*
@MichaelBridges3D4 жыл бұрын
A general overview of environments or are you looking for something more specific?
@1youssefadelone1984 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D general please
@mooooooon92964 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D people want to learn basic of modeling . the content you publish is a bit targeting advanced users.
@IbrahimYounes4 жыл бұрын
@@mooooooon9296 There are tons of people doing Basic of Modeling, with amount of information on the Internet you can become a master. I would say keep the advance stuff coming, thanks for sharing Michael :)
@asadrais0073 жыл бұрын
It's really amazing, but I am using crowrender, I am having 4 pc. Master PC. Core i9 10gen, 2060 RTX, SSD, 32GB. NODE 1 i7, 32GB, SSD , GTX 1070, NODE 2 i7, 32GB, SSD, GTX 1060, NODE 3 i5, 32gb Rendering time 70% reduced, If I use 2000 as sample setting then It take only 5 minutes, before It was taking around 25 minutes. With 100 samples, Before - 2 mint 30 sec. And now 40sec only.
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
That's an amazing improvement!
@blendpinexus14162 жыл бұрын
i wonder if there is a method to do this in a more automated way
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
I have been looking into both ssh connections to the machines and other remote methods as well that are simple and easy to explain… that’s the challenging part.
@blendpinexus14162 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D oh cool, let me know on your findings
@riazulrahil3 жыл бұрын
Oh. My. God. How many computers in total? :o
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Enough the keep the children occupied! 😂
@NTruske3 жыл бұрын
Enjoys ! is so well done ! can you recommend a linux version ?
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Linux works really well. And depending on what you are trying to do in general it can be a very good choice. I recommend Pop_OS!
@jayanthl70004 жыл бұрын
Hello sir, really enjoying your blender courses! how old are you sir ?
@CoisasdaLuisaHelena3 жыл бұрын
Hello, your video was really helpful, thank u ^^ One question: what should we do if we want to folllow that steps but with a video render , not a image sequence? :)
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
I really do not recommend rending direct to video, it takes exactly the same length of time to render an image sequence but you have (almost) no options to pause / recover a render if you are rendering and it stops for whatever reason. However, in the output tab change your file format to 'Ffmpeg Video' and under encoding set the container to 'MPEG-4'.
@cevxj3 жыл бұрын
not using the command line, I am triggered. Ultrawide on laptop that's rendering. I AM TRIGGERED
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Wanted to make it as accessible to as many as possible. SSH’ing into them all remotely and running a script also isn’t as fun 🙃 But yeah turn off monitors can speed up rendering!
@cevxj3 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D it was entertaining 👍🏼
@lp30373 жыл бұрын
I have two low end older generation computers that I would like to try building a two nodes cluster. PC#1 i7 2600 with 16gb ddr3 ram and GT 1030 gpu with 2gb ram 240gb SSD 2,5gb Ethernet adapter PC#2 i7 3770 with 8gb ddr3 ram and GT 1030 gpu with 2gb ram 240gb SSD 2.5gb Ethernet adapter One two bay NAS. Are these hardware configurations OK for blender animation rendering? Thank you.
@MichaelBridges3D3 жыл бұрын
Yeah sure, if the frames render on the computers then you can use them in a cluster. The 3 computers next to one another are 2nd gen Core i5s with 1050tis so they get used during lighter renders
@Ecceptor2 жыл бұрын
Just tested using "file output" in compositor. Sadly the overwrite and placeholders option don't exist.
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
Ahh that's a real shame!
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
Quick update, whilst it doesn't have the options for placeholder/overwrite etc, it uses whatever you have set in the output properties, so if you have placeholders checked it will create them.
@Ecceptor2 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelBridges3D nice! so you need to save them in two place? One with output render, and one with "file output" node. I usually leave nothing in file output and save render using node.
@MichaelBridges3D2 жыл бұрын
@@Ecceptor yeah if you use the file output it will generate placeholders- but only if place holders is checked under the Output Properties > Output
@hellerart Жыл бұрын
I wonder what these PCs would equal in 4090s ;) All PC like 1 4090? Or are they all 3080s?
@MichaelBridges3D Жыл бұрын
lol no at the time of recording a lot of those only had 1050ti's / 1060 in them