Render Manager

[CowHickey]

Hi,

I've been working on a render manager which splits the rendering of a single scene across several machines. At this point in time it's not much more than a proof of concept with a very crude interface. I was just wondering if there is enough demand to carry on the development to make it more suitable for general use.

Current features include

• No need to write scripts
• Automatic stitching of the final image
• Should work over the Internet (I have not tested this yet)
• Windows only at this stage

Please reply to this post or send me a PM if you think I should carry on with my development.

Thanks for your time.

[cyphyr]

Very definitely keep working on it, sounds great
Feature request: It really must be able to stitch together Terragens .exr output.
Thanks
Richard

[goldfarb]

yes

do you mind if I ask how you are stitching the regions together?

[old_blaggard]

Yes! Please develop this! Have you written the code in such a way that it could be easily ported to the Mac? (No Windows-specific libraries, just C/C++ or something?)

[Mr_Lamppost]

Yes please.  It could be very useful.

[CowHickey]

@cyphyr - I had to look up what the EXR file format was  - it looks a tad more complex than bitmaps, so I'll be sticking to those whilst I get the code up to scratch.

@goldfarb - I'd like to keep that secret for a while until I'm sure it actually works correctly with all images. The way I'm doing it is very simple, but can be a little time and memory intensive. Once I'm sure it is bulletproof, then I'll be happy to share how it works.

@old_blaggard - the code is written in C# so cannot be ported easily to the Mac. I have written OSX code before and should be able to port it over. However, I want to get the basics right first so will be concentrating solely on Windows initially.

Now I just need to think of a cool name... 

[Oshyan]

I do believe the open source ImageMagick image library supports OpenEXR, as does the FreeImage library which TG2 uses: http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/

So it shouldn't be too hard to add support, in theory.

- Oshyan