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Using multiple machines for renders?

ParadigmParadigm Posts: 423
in The Commons

Hello,

I know this has not been the case in the past, but I've been away from Daz for a while and I was wondering if this was supported now? I'm purchasing a laptop for work and I'm thinking about spending a little extra to get a quality GPU so I can take my hobbies on the road with me when I travel for work (I do this a lot). I woul be able to justify the additional cost even easier if I could leverage the laptops' GPU alongside my PC when I'm at home.

 

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  • Worlds_EdgeWorlds_Edge Posts: 2,153

    If you have the same content on both (or on an external drive), you can set up your scenes on one and render on the other, if that is the question.  

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,953
    edited November 2017

    Otherwise, DS does support Iray Server but that's (I believe) $295 per machine per year

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • wizwiz Posts: 1,100

    Benchmark the desktop and laptop, then render a proportionate section of the timeline on each.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited November 2017

    ...so you would need an identical mirror of your runtime/library drive along with another instance of the same version of Daz on the other system to prevent any missing path errors.

    Post edited by kyoto kid on
  • CGI3DMCGI3DM Posts: 279

    Try GPUBox Free.

    GPUBox is a technology useful for everyone who uses GPUs for something more than gaming. It is the first publicly available solution that allows many users to dynamically share dozens of GPU devices at the same time, for such purposes as 3D rendering, bioinformatics or molecular dynamics.

  • drzapdrzap Posts: 795
    edited November 2017
    armando_cg25_555c08aa3d said:

    Try GPUBox Free.

    GPUBox is a technology useful for everyone who uses GPUs for something more than gaming. It is the first publicly available solution that allows many users to dynamically share dozens of GPU devices at the same time, for such purposes as 3D rendering, bioinformatics or molecular dynamics.

    Yeah, next time he wants to simulate some molecules, he can get crowd support.  But the OP asked about DAZ Studio, not Blender Cycles (which is free).   This might work with Daz and Octane, but that is definitely not free of cost and aggravation.

    Post edited by drzap on
  • brainmuffinbrainmuffin Posts: 1,267

    I still use Reality to LuxRender and it network renders.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    ...I would have stayed with it if R4 wasn't so buggy and the rendering process didn't run on a geologic time scale. I'm into high quality renders and the speed boost (which for me is only about 3X as I have a first generation i7) sacrifices quality. 

  • Silver DolphinSilver Dolphin Posts: 1,638
    armando_cg25_555c08aa3d said:

    Try GPUBox Free.

    GPUBox is a technology useful for everyone who uses GPUs for something more than gaming. It is the first publicly available solution that allows many users to dynamically share dozens of GPU devices at the same time, for such purposes as 3D rendering, bioinformatics or molecular dynamics.

    This would be nice for people who insist on laptops. If it was supported by Daz. A cheap Linux box just to hold your gpu and this free software and you can do Iray.

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