RandyWang
10.05.2005, 10:09
This is a fairly vague feature request, so allow me to outline my needs:
1. My primary computer is a 500Mhz G3 iMac, with 320Mb RAM. While it isn't exactly a dinosaur, it's not fast... at all. While I have several other computers at my disposal (including an iMac G5 1.8, and a new iBook within a few weeks) which Martin was kind enough to allow me to install Cheetah on with the same license. Sadly, I rarely have physical access to these machines because of various family-based reasons (one of them is with a parent I have very little access to, and so on).
2. While I do all my editing on the 500Mhz iMac, it's much too slow for me to use as a rendering machine. For instance, the original Rose that I posted in my tutorial topic took two days to render on this machine - so long that I wasn't able to go back and fix what I disliked, and simply had to make do with using Photoshop to patch up what I could.
3. Currently, the only way I can have renders completed within a reasonable timeframe is to email or IM the .jas files, and have them rendered on the iMac G5 by my Dad... an extremely poor solution.
And so, I would like to request some kind of functionality, however limited, that would allow me to either take advantage of multiple computers on the same LAN to co-operatively render a single image (a la XCode's Distributed Build ability), OR to allow me to ssh to a remote computer, have it render the scene file, and then save the file uncompressed (as a .mov or TIFF) and allow me to copy it back to my own machine.
This would be a godsend for me, potentially cutting rendering times significantly, and making it possible for me to work with much more complex images.
Perhaps this could be accomplished with a separate "Network Client", or something, that would allow me to run it remotely with a particular set of arguments (as is possible in *nix). I'm not sure if this is possible, nor am I sure if this is even possible right now.
Hope this isn't too specific a requirement for your consideration, Martin. Thanks in advance. =)
1. My primary computer is a 500Mhz G3 iMac, with 320Mb RAM. While it isn't exactly a dinosaur, it's not fast... at all. While I have several other computers at my disposal (including an iMac G5 1.8, and a new iBook within a few weeks) which Martin was kind enough to allow me to install Cheetah on with the same license. Sadly, I rarely have physical access to these machines because of various family-based reasons (one of them is with a parent I have very little access to, and so on).
2. While I do all my editing on the 500Mhz iMac, it's much too slow for me to use as a rendering machine. For instance, the original Rose that I posted in my tutorial topic took two days to render on this machine - so long that I wasn't able to go back and fix what I disliked, and simply had to make do with using Photoshop to patch up what I could.
3. Currently, the only way I can have renders completed within a reasonable timeframe is to email or IM the .jas files, and have them rendered on the iMac G5 by my Dad... an extremely poor solution.
And so, I would like to request some kind of functionality, however limited, that would allow me to either take advantage of multiple computers on the same LAN to co-operatively render a single image (a la XCode's Distributed Build ability), OR to allow me to ssh to a remote computer, have it render the scene file, and then save the file uncompressed (as a .mov or TIFF) and allow me to copy it back to my own machine.
This would be a godsend for me, potentially cutting rendering times significantly, and making it possible for me to work with much more complex images.
Perhaps this could be accomplished with a separate "Network Client", or something, that would allow me to run it remotely with a particular set of arguments (as is possible in *nix). I'm not sure if this is possible, nor am I sure if this is even possible right now.
Hope this isn't too specific a requirement for your consideration, Martin. Thanks in advance. =)