Maxwellrender & rebusfarm

frv

Hi, I just wanted to share an experience we had last night.

We are a bit in a rush and needed some more speed to finish a project.
We installed the Rebusfarmizer and sent out a mxs file exported from a 30Mb sketchup file.
The rendering including multilight and an alpha channel rendered for about 20 min. (about 20 euro) up to sampling level 18 and was sent back to us as an .mxi file of 260 Mb. The benchmark was 30.000 !! for a rather complicated file with lots of interior lights (over 200). On our system an 8 core Macpro the benchmark reached about 60....

Its unbelievable as well to be able to adjust all lighting afterwards using multilight. As well as being able to adjust the lighting itself for shutterspeed and iso & gamma. All this can be adjusted after the rendered image is finished in realtime in Maxwell. We normally were not using multilight much because our systems are not so fast anymore. But with the Rebusfarm all that becomes very different and this renderfarm makes all the extra features of Maxwellrender very valuable in combination with Sketchup.

Francois
http://www.fillieverhoeven.nl

numerobis

20€ and 20 min sounds very good! And i wasn't aware that you get the mxi file... now things start to become interesting

What image size?
And i think the biggest problem is the upload speed - a big scene with many highres textures... 500-1000MB with a 5mbit upload.

frv

Yes, uploading is the bottleneck. But that's really the end user problem since the farm itself has a very speedy connection to the web.

We had a problem downloading our files last week. They gave us a refund so it was solved rather well by Rebus.

But the biggest advantage of the farm is incredible speed, this means you can switch on any channels you like along with Multiplight. The mxi file you download can be used to finetune the image and you can safe the image in any format.

Great, I never realised before that a renderfarm is the way to go for larger projects that are well paid enough to spend the extra money.
What kept me from going there before is that it sounded complicated. But it was actually very simple to set up.
Francois