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> I would like to set up a rendering server to work with maya and
> 3dsmax.  I have 2 silicon graphics computer, an Intel server and some
> other compaq P4 computer that will be in this render farm.  I don't
> have any idea on how it works to set up such services on win2k.  Do I
> have to get specific software or just configure the software on all
> computer?  How can I do to use the power of all my computer to perform
> rendering task of my 2 silicon graphics station?  Thank you very much
> for your help.

Hi!
(My information bases on MAX3.1, I do not own Maya)

First: As far as I know, there is no MAX rendering engine for SGI.

So we are talking about Intel machines only for MAX.

It's very simple. Install MAX on each machine. There are 4 executables in
it: MAX itself, a "server.exe", a "manager.exe" and a "queueman.exe".

On one machine, start "manager.exe", the machine is doing the job
administration and distribution.
On the render slaves (this may include the manager machine) start
"server.exe" and enter the name of the manager machine into the appropriate
field.
Start MAX and select "Net render" in the rendering dialogue, enter the
manager machine's name and you will get a list of all slaves.

That's pretty much it.
Martin

Share your map directories on the main machine for the render slaves. Edit
3dsmax.ini files to point to those shared map directories. The best way to
do this is NOT to include all of the maps for each slave. Let them get the
maps from the shared directory. Also .. you need to share another directory
somewhere for the output of the render. Also remember that multipl,e
machines can only do frame sequences. If you want to render AVI or QT only
one machine at a time can do that.
"Martin Schneider" <martin.schneider@illusion-factory.de> wrote in message
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> > I would like to set up a rendering server to work with maya and
> > 3dsmax.  I have 2 silicon graphics computer, an Intel server and some
> > other compaq P4 computer that will be in this render farm.  I don't
> > have any idea on how it works to set up such services on win2k.  Do I
> > have to get specific software or just configure the software on all
> > computer?  How can I do to use the power of all my computer to perform
> > rendering task of my 2 silicon graphics station?  Thank you very much
> > for your help.
>
> Hi!
> (My information bases on MAX3.1, I do not own Maya)
>
> First: As far as I know, there is no MAX rendering engine for SGI.
>
> So we are talking about Intel machines only for MAX.
>
> It's very simple. Install MAX on each machine. There are 4 executables in
> it: MAX itself, a "server.exe", a "manager.exe" and a "queueman.exe".
>
> On one machine, start "manager.exe", the machine is doing the job
> administration and distribution.
> On the render slaves (this may include the manager machine) start
> "server.exe" and enter the name of the manager machine into the
appropriate
> field.
> Start MAX and select "Net render" in the rendering dialogue, enter the
> manager machine's name and you will get a list of all slaves.
>
> That's pretty much it.
> Martin
>
>
>

"Jane" <joseft@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Share your map directories on the main machine for the render slaves.
> Edit 3dsmax.ini files to point to those shared map directories. The
> best way to do this is NOT to include all of the maps for each slave.
> Let them get the maps from the shared directory. Also .. you need to
> share another directory somewhere for the output of the render. Also
> remember that multiple machines can only do frame sequences. If you
> want to render AVI or QT only one machine at a time can do that.


 Also note, IIRC, max only runs on TCP/IP networks. No other standards
are supported (IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, etc.)