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Re: Network Rendering in 3dsmax

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Originally Posted by Hailfire
I was wondering how you render your animation by rendering from say, 5 or more computers. I know there's a way of doing it but I don't know how to.
You will install 3ds max on all the machines.
Then you will find that 3ds max has named the Network rendering: Backburner. I can't quote the exact settings/procedure that you'll need to use but you will run all the rendering machines in server mode and one of the machines will run the manager that will connect up to all the slaves in server mode and send them files to render.
The manual/Reference is pretty clear on getting this to work. As long as your computers are networked together and seeing each other it shouldn't be to diiffcult.