How to use Network Rendering in 3ds max with V-ray and Backburner

[@tusharparmar9258]

This is great pictorial tutorial practically done 👍

[@kyleper1410]

Very helpful to me! Thank you!😍

[@ashishtanwar9748]

Super important thanks a ton for sharing

[@BrandonScam]

За Аргент фіша і двор - стріляю в упор!

[@Djdave0922]

Do you need 4 separate vray licenses, and 4 separate license for each plugin eg forestpack??

[@EvelynHernandez]

im wondering the same thing. Im trying to set up a render farm using Maya and Arnold but i want to know if you need miultiplle lisences for Maya and Arnold

[@leonardopinheiro6693]

Very good! Thank you.

[@FaddyVFX]

Good job. keep up the good work

[@princejassal1]

Great video. I love the way your desktop and icons look. Can you please share which plugin or theme are you using for that look?

[@ArgentFish]

Sure. This is my own created icon pack for all programs. There you can find PSD file and create other soft icon by using my layers. drive.google.com/file/d/1Mz_P2yfHBpeyNYrnbW9jFCSs7imrwW_j/view?usp=sharing

[@princejassal1]

@@ArgentFish awesome! Thank you soooooo much for sharing the files. Appreciate it.

[@tomlowe628]

Thank you so much. The best video I've been able to find for setting up network rendering. If I could tip you $ I would!

[@ArgentFish]

Thank you, Tom! I really appreciate that! ❤️

[@daveboyd2086]

Can I hire you to remotely configure my 3 machines like this?

[@yeakubali2868]

thanks

[@santhosh8395]

Thanks bro

[@Andrea-rj2pc]

Thank you so much, it was really helpful! The distributed rendering works, but there are chromatic differences between the buckets rendered by the workstation and those rendered by the second PC and some problems with v-ray FUR. The two PCs have the same version of the software used and I have activated the transfer missing asset function. I have seen that it is a widespread problem, but I have not been able to solve it. Can you help me? Thank you so much again!

[@iagomeyer4988]

how do u do that when licenses of vray are so expensive? you need to buy for all the pcs?

[@R1PPA-C]

I'm just in the middle of building my first render node and moving from a workstation to a 2 computer setup, I'm wondering... Is it possible to farm out Phoenix FD or tyflow sims to be calculated on the server whilst I carry on working on my main rig? Some of my sims take a long time to calculate before I even get to the rendering stage, awesome video, I'm sure I'll be back here when everything is set up

[@ProvVFX]

Hey, I know it's been a year since you posted this question, but I was also looking for the same answer and I found it. I thought you might want to know, if you're still wondering. Chaos has said there's no support for this.

[@R1PPA-C]

@@ProvVFX hey appreciate the reply.. I never mind if the post is old or not.. It's what social Internet is here for right? ... But yeah I kinda figured they wouldn't be in any hurry to add multi machine sims.... They aren't the fastest when it comes to getting features added... (still waiting for many basic vray functions to be ported over to gpu) I'm actually starting to learn houdini, between the interest rates chaos are charging for us indie artists how can't afford to pay upfront and the slow pace of basic features it's time for a switch.

[@ProvVFX]

@@R1PPA-C Agreed. I wish I had the brains and energy to learn Houdini, their particle fluids are the sort of thing you'd see at ILM. I wonder how fast it is compared to Phoenix too. If chaos added network simulations that would be great. I spend a week simulating 100 frames.

[@R1PPA-C]

@@ProvVFX houdini is difficult as anything, but I've been told as soon as I get to grips with it I won't look back... But I'm struggling 🤣 And yeah the quest for sims especially highly detailed fluids is my end game... Currently each frame is around 1gb on the disk which is fine and I have fast drives but it takes so long to scrub the timeline. But with houdini I haven't started with fluids yet but I'll try come back here and post a comparison once I learn how to successfully navigate the damn thing without rage quitting I actually sold my little render farm.. I had 3 x poweredge servers with gpus for rendering but the energy bill was out of control, as a hobbyist I need to learn my place 🤣

[@ProvVFX]

@@R1PPA-C That's what I hear too, plus there's also less competition if you totally switch to Houdini. I've been trying to get sims in phoenix to look as close as possible to Houdini's, but it's turning out to be pretty hard. Houdini has the upper hand with this. Not being able to do faster sims is the achilles heel of Phoenix.

[@Al.Bawsala]

شكرا.. عمل رائع

[@ArgentFish]

اشكرك صديقي

[@hidden5200]

how to render multiple object and light in multiple layer in single camera? foreground ,background or character ... im familiar with maya but in max very complicated.

[@weslley3dezao]

Muito bom, adorei. Obrigado.

[@ArgentFish]

E obrigado! =)

[@abhigajjar7396]

its really helpful thank you buddy and How i can use Distribute Rendering in a corona render ?

[@romerozarragossa]

Have a network drive on the main station for the textures and assigned that mapped drive to the stations. Have and output drive shared also and mapped to the other stations. I started the manager with the default ports, and the servers I also only put the station name in and they were found automatically in the job window. I think it is the linksys router not talking UDP but I have no idea why it does not load the bachburner plugin. When I start the servers, it reports that the plugin has been loaded but then in the render task window it does not show up.. I need some help. In the forums off Autodesk is nothing to be found.

[@seyyedmostsfanavvab1207]

Hello my friend. I'm working with the Arnold render engine in Maya. And I have another system. I want to use the network when rendering in Maya with Arnold. I mean the power of that other system. Exactly like what you did. Of course, for me with Maya and Arnold's rendering engine. Is there a way? Because I did not find the option to render on the network in Maya. I would be grateful if you could help me.

[@ArgentFish]

Hello, dear! I'm sorry, I've never used Maya for render. I know only how to setup 3ds Max. I'm sorry, but thank you for your questions!

[@Luke-3D]

no one ever says where they get the servers addresses from?? Where are they?

[@ArgentFish]

If the manager is active, the servers will automaticaly will fiind the manager. But all they must be in the same network.

[@switbeee1364]

is there a way you can use multiple computers in different servers. eg work pc and work pc in different locations

[@Djdave0922]

Great question! I’m interested to know this answer…

[@ArgentFish]

I think it's really complicate to do. I'm just a guy that work at home. Probably backburner can do it, but need to be settuped properly. I'm have no knoledges in this area, but I think that must static IP and proper ports.

[@romerozarragossa]

Have 2014 installed on all 4 computers Max Design. On the main machine it does a network render No problem but all the other machines it says no plugin installed. I have a new Linksys router and that finds all the machines and also manager finds all the machines using IPv6 instead of IPv4. Its a new linksys thing to connect v6 likely using TCP and not UDP. So when all computers show up in the manager and in the Monitor but all the 3 stations say no plugin available and when it find them in the render jpb window it does not show that the plugin is loaded. Only the main machine has it loaded. Whats wrong with that, can you help?

[@ArgentFish]

Didn't know about this problem, unfortunately. Server window tells you No plugin? What tells manager about all server? Are they ready in monitor? Is there render the same on all PC? I mean arnold, v-ray, corona or what do you use. There must be exactly the same max versions and render versions

[@romerozarragossa]

@@ArgentFish Thanks, I noticed that. I installed Version 2014 on windows 7 and windows 10. Windows 10 does not work, because its plugin is already different. How stupid is that, no downward compatibility at all. Too much work to maintain a rendering farm. All the best

[@rezasadeghi9614]

hi different network??if possible how?

[@ArgentFish]

I think it's possible, but there's a lot of difficulties in setup. I even didn't try it. Can not help you. But thanks for question!

[@왜못할거라생각해]

is it different from gpu server render? like u have a server with 10 gpu can't you use that gpu's to do that render? you realy need 4 or more computer?? to do it exactly the same as the video show?

[@ArgentFish]

You can setup your render preset for gpu and it works the same in spawner or in backburner

[@kuwalsanam4344]

Great video.I need help badly During distribution rendering (vray Spawner) 12700k with windows 11 is not giving all the cores to other pc where the parent render job is on.early response is very much appreciated Thanks a lot

[@ArgentFish]

Maybe you have to give permissions for max to use all cores... Are that PCs use all cores in render separately? Sorry, don't know the answer.

[@playroomkhm4806]

Мощно

[@nazairvideo6899]

Круто ти шпрехен інгліш👌

[@ArgentFish]

Опана!) Дякую, Назар!

[@Alex-tz2px]

🤗🎉

[@incisivestudio4173]

Wolverine, here?

[@---fq2kd]

у тебя слишком густая борода она настоящая?

[@dConceptdk]

Since windows 10 I can not make backburner work! Does anyone else here, have the same problem?

[@SK_Varios]

А теперь по-русски можно?