Hair and Fur in MAX 8

[kcy88]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Is there some way you can net render with multiple computers involved? If you have that capability, it would allow multiple machines to work on your render job and speed up the process.

Also, any less detail will mean lower render times. High quality stuff takes a long time unfortunately.

Indeed there is! If you enable Bucket Rendering with the Mental Ray renderer instead of using backburner, you can use up to 8 cpus on ONE frame not including the computer that is hosting the scene. It's a thrill to watch more than 1 bucket render, and even more exciting to watch 8. However, from my experience from working on the safety animation, bucket rendering is ideal for test renders and Backburner is ideal for rendering animation.

The most effective way to use bucket rendering is to have a fast network and computers that are equal in performance. It doesn't help you if you have one really slow cpu and one fast cpu.


If you need a guide on how to setup bucket rendering, let me know, I'd be glad to help.