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INTRODUCTION
The goal of this tutorial is to show how we can work with the network rendering when using the Lightworks rendering engine under Form*Z.
You should read the NETWORK RENDERING section of the manual before this document.
I simply want to share my own experimentation so all the document is made from the example of my simple network.
All IP addresses on my network are manually set for computers and peripherals
The work group for all is “BUREAU”
All these installations have been made under a clean process for Windows XP.
(See my tutorial in the corresponding section of the forum.)
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You can use the automatic settings for some of these but I prefer manual settings so I can control exactly what I make and what my firewall do.
Summary:
Go to the “server configuration”dialog by using the “configure”button of the RENDER SERVER window.
Set it as 28838.
You should not change the default setting except if you get a conflict.
Go to the server “client settings”dialog by using the “Settings”button of the RENDER CLIENT window.
(as you can see the numbers of the ports are logically found from the IP address)
JEAN-LUC @ 192.168.1.10 port 28810
MATTHIEU @ 192.168.1.20 port 28820
I prefer use registered users to have the possibility of keeping the file on the server machine for several renders from the same scene, and for clarity in the
process.
In fact I’
ve two licenses so I can set the registered users as fellow
USER 1
Name = jlformz
Port = 28831
USER 2
Name = jlimager
Port = 28832
USER 3
Name = matformz
Port = 28833
USER 4
Name = matimager
Port = 28834
In my case I’
ve set the port as static to 28831
If you are using the Imager you have to access to the “network settings”dialog by using the “Network Render Status”button on the bottom of the Imager set and
the “settings button”of the “Network Render Status”thus opened.
You have to use the add port button on the “Exceptions page
For simplicity I open all of these ports on all machines on the local network.
Of course DO NOT USE the same number of the RENDER server (28838)
4- you can set the Client Strength to 50 ( I will explain this further)
Don’t forget that the “Remove Job Files”is use to delete the files placed on the local machine (where a client run)
On Win XP these files are localized here:
C:\Documents and Settings\[USER]\My documents\formZ network client\files
CLICK OK
With three kinds of windows you can see how the rendering run:
(You can also read the LOG file to understand in details during the process)
1- set the image size to 1000 x 750 pixels (from Image options dialog)
2- Set one light with atmospheric light to slow the rendering.
(Here is the settings, output power 0.1, apply atmospheric light accurate overcast, light ble sky luminance 7 quality about 90%)
By double click on the rendering line of the Job queue section of the RENDER SERVER window you can access to these two final dialogs:
JEAN-LUC = 39 seconds
MATTHIEU = 123 seconds
Total calculus time (be careful this is not the real time) = 162 s
THE RENDERING IS DONE AFTER 138 seconds (TOTAL RENDER TIME field in the job information dialog)
OPTIMIZATION
Let’
s go for a new test.
As we can see the main difficulty in the rendered image is in the upper part (70%)
So we can hope to get a better result if the client that renders this part is set to approximately to strength around 70 when the second is set to 30%
LOG FILE:
THE RENDERING IS DONE AFTER 88 seconds (TOTAL RENDER TIME field in the job information dialog)
The times for the calculus are approximately the same: 162 seconds and 168 seconds.
But the first rendering is done in 138 seconds and the second in 88 seconds (difference 50 seconds)
a minor problem with the render server (as you can see on my last image the port for the clients are not correctly identified by the server
despite they are correctly manually set in the different clients.
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