Maxwell Render/The Best Render Farms
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Howdy folks,
I've been looking into the possibility of using a Render Farm for more complex interior scenes because of the ridiculous length of time it can take to render a scene in Maxwell Render where there are lots of materials/emitters. The images below took over 30hrs of continual gut-wrenching processing time and because renders of this nature take up most of my laptop's memory I'm unable to use other applications on my laptop at the same time. This is not good. Has anyone used Maxwell Render compatible Render Farms, or can anyone make a good recommendation? I'm currently trialing Rebus Farm but I have a feeling that the final image will be very poor because of the minimal free credits you are allocated.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Anita
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you could try http://www.ranchcomputing.com/
...or http://www.renderrocket.com/
i haven't tried them myself but at least Ranch seems to be very customer friendly - judging from the responses of RenderFred in the Maxwell Forum. But i don't know if these priority levels are good...
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Thanks for your reply. I've heard of Render Rocket and I gave Rebus Render a trial (the quality of the image was superb). My only gripe with using a Render Farm is that I can't use the light simulator that comes with Maxwell Render to make adjustments during processing. I'm thinking of getting a more powerful laptop/processor to try and cut down rendering time. I'm currently only using an intel core i3 processor and I've noticed that people out there are using i7. So, on that note can anyone recommend a decent laptop for rendering purposes only???
Thanks
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i think a laptop for rendering is always a problem... slower than a desktop and runs very hot. A desktop workstation or rendernode should be the faster, cheaper and safer solution.
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Thanks for your contribution! I'm starting to think that you're right! My laptop does indeed get very hot. Can you explain to me what a 'rendernode' is??!
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it's only a computer for network rendering, nothing special. It can be "headless", without monitor and controlled via remote desktop. And only needs a "Node" license of maxwell.
http://support.nextlimit.com/display/maxwelldocs/Network+Rendering
Or a full desktop computer if you're doing serious work. (I'm not sure how i could work on an i3 laptop... my 4,6GHz hexacore is always feeling too slow)
But maybe you need it portable.
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Ahhhh, I'm getting closer to understanding all of this technical stuff. My current license allows me to apply the license to a laptop and one workstation; so I could use my laptop as the 'manager' and the workstation as the rendernode ('slave'). Hmmmmm.....the cogs are turning.
I've only recently realised just how pathetic an i3 is for rendering!! Gimme a break; I'm still learning!!
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