RenderShare is born

[Mazin]

We discussed the idea of animators helping each other render stuff by sending them over the web. Well, I volunteered to go one step further and make a web-based interface to facilitate this sharing. If anybody actually read my details, they'll notice a few features have been cut, but here it is.

It is done! I call it RenderShare, for lack of more creativity, and is a PHP system that allows people to upload projects or take on "assignments". You may find it at:
http://rendershare.aztekera.com

Please, I implore you to be motivated and help other people - it's what drives the system. I don't want to see this turn to dust and die - it takes YOU, the generous, helpful, motivated animator to turn this into a viable system. "Do unto others as you would have them do to you," and render for somebody when you aren't busy rendering your own. You'll find that the more you help, the more other people will too.

It doesn't look like much, because I've put 0 CSS into it, but if someone could make a nicer one that would be much appreciated (I've used mostly proper tags to facilitate this).

To actually get in, you need a referral. Ask either BuddyB309, me, or another member for one - they can send you one by e-mail through a little web form.

Please remember that it has been tested, but not sufficiently enough to guarantee that it's completely rock-solid and stable. Try to be reasonable with it.

Oh, and tell everybody you can about this

[BuddyB309]

whoopee!!!!!! Its like all the Christmas days Ive ever had compacted into digital interface.
thank you for helping getting an idea off the runway.

[Mazin]

I posted something to be rendered: a short little particle flow test. shouldn't take long.

[abroerman]

Just started rendering, working great - just wondering, is there any way to allow multiple downloads of 1 file, for example if 1 person wanted to do the first 50 frames, while another does the 2nd 50 etc.? That was the impression I first got reading about this - a sort of renderfarm.

[neo]

what kind of design would you be looking for on the css?

[Mazin]

Originally Posted by abroerman

Just started rendering, working great - just wondering, is there any way to allow multiple downloads of 1 file, for example if 1 person wanted to do the first 50 frames, while another does the 2nd 50 etc.? That was the impression I first got reading about this - a sort of renderfarm.

... I kinda implemented the feature partway, but I gave up on it to "get things done". Right now, the current solution is to upload it multiple times.

Originally Posted by neo

what kind of design would you be looking for on the css?

Any, as long as (1) it does not require changes to the XHTML (thinking modularly), and (2) looks nice and clean. It's not too difficult to setup styles for elements such as <ul>, <h1>, <table><tr><th><td>, etc.

[neo]

colors? text placement and/or styles? logos?

[Mazin]

Originally Posted by neo

colors? text placement and/or styles? logos?

Whatever you believe looks nice, per the above guides.