Does Blender offer network rendering on a LAN? If so, where are the docs to set this up?. I saw something on setting up a Primitive Render Farm, but no docs as to how this is setup.
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$\begingroup$ cgcookie.com/tutorial/setting-up-a-renderfarm $\endgroup$– user1853Mar 26, 2019 at 15:07
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1$\begingroup$ wiki.blender.org/wiki/Source/Render/Cycles/Network_Render $\endgroup$– user1853Mar 26, 2019 at 15:08
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$\begingroup$ Crowd render will give you vs 2.2 which is good but linked materials have some difficulties. v2.6 is 4$ per month and most probably solves lots of issues in previous version. V 2.2 is too old and buggy. At least they could give v2.5 to the community. $\endgroup$– AlphonsoMay 21, 2020 at 17:14
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$\begingroup$ You can check the available addons for network rendering, for example BlendNet allows to render in cloud (GCP/AWS) or using your own resources. Check the video here: youtu.be/PBa5u7w0FXo $\endgroup$– RabitSep 16, 2020 at 21:03
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$\begingroup$ There is an opensource project BlendNet to simplify both local rendering (on your own resources) and to automate the cloud (AWS/GCP/...) deployments for rendering. Check this out: youtu.be/PBa5u7w0FXo $\endgroup$– RabitSep 24, 2020 at 21:16
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There is no accepted, included, out-of-the-box way right now. It's on the roadmap of features for them to add, but they haven't reached that feature yet.
Not to say you can't do it, though. It will just involve custom scripts, python scripts, and some fiddling around to get it going. Google "Blender network rendering", "Blender distributed rendering", and "Blender render farm" for some ideas. Without more details about your situation, I can't really recommend anything more specific.
answered Mar 26, 2019 at 14:55
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$\begingroup$ Also, lookup "Flamenco" on the Blender Cloud. This is the tool that Blender Institute uses to manage their own render jobs. $\endgroup$ Mar 26, 2019 at 15:32
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$\begingroup$ ok have you used or know anybody who has used crowd render on blender version 2.79 B ? $\endgroup$ Mar 26, 2019 at 20:06
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$\begingroup$ I wonder if crow render is dead. I checked out their webpage, they still talk about only supporting 2.79, they announced in 2018 that they would port it over to 2.8, looks like this never happened. $\endgroup$ May 1, 2020 at 21:49