Questions tagged [network]
A network is a set of computers and the connections between them. Blender allows you to easily harness multiple computers' processing power by setting up a "render farm" over a network.
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Set up a render farm with multiple OS and spec
I have quite a few computers at my disposal- about 100 mac pro's bought 2 years ago, just as many windows PC's of varying age (1-3 years), 50 linux machines and a good few terabytes of storage on a ...
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How to use baked fluid with network render?
I would like to use blender net render feature, but I know, that currently it does not support baking fluid simulations (see Blender Netrender Manual).
Is it possible to bake it locally and then use ...
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Is there a way to render single frame using network rendering in Cycles?
I'm working on architectural visualisations, and I can't imagine more useful feature. How render farms for rent do that?
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How do I force the netrender to render everything on GPU?
I have a server with an Nvidia GPU card and I want to render my images using Cycles on it. I set up Master and Slave instances on the server and a Client instance on my laptop.
The rendering works, ...
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Python: Server and Client in Blender
I have 2 Blender instances running on my machine. I want the 1st Blender instance to be a Server and the 2nd one is a client.
I just want a simple thing. Just to send a String message from the Client ...
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Does Blender support any form of collaborative editing?
I remember there was once a project called Verse, which allowed (or at least was supposed to) collaborative editing in Blender, even using Blender collaboratively with other applications.
Is anything ...
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Can a Blender script stay in memory and listen to a socket?
I am considering writing a python script which, once run by the Blender internal interpreter, would stay in memory, listening to a socket and reacting to messages.
As an example I would use this to ...
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turn on Cycles GPU render on non CUDA computers
Is there a way to turn on GPU rendering without an installed CUDA driver and without a CUDA enabled graphic card?
I want to send the blend file on my render farm, all the slaves have NVidia CUDA ...
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Controlling drivers with data received via TCP/UDP
For a project I need to drive shape keys with data received via a network connection. In my setup I receive input form a TouchOSC app running on an iPad into PureData on a Mac. The input data then is ...
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Cycles Netrender Returning Black
I have a 2 node netrender setup that is fully functional with Blender render engine but not Cycles. When I do this it is rendering because it takes some time for it to return the blank images but it ...
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Is there a way to control Blender's GUI remotely?
I would like to control Blender on a remote server (Ubuntu, local network) from my Notebook (Windows 7).
Until now I evaluated the following configurations, none of them works satisfactorily.
1 VNC (...
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Can I specify a portion of the image to render in Cycles? [duplicate]
Is it currently possible to specify which portion of an image you'd like to render in Cycles? Let's say I'm going to render an image with dimensions 1280x720. Can I render just the rectangle bounded ...
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How to bypass OpenGL 1.2 requirement for remote GPU rendering?
Disclaimer: I am aware that this question is very similar to these two and that the answer to my question would probably be applicable to them, too:
How to run blender 2.77 on a virtual network ...
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Sending object data from blender with urllib very slow
I am sending object loc rot and scale every keyframe to http address using urllib but the frame rate drops significantly.
Thats the code I am using:
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Saving blend-files straight to server nets 0.5% speed of a windows file copy, how to fix?
Some context:
Part of our company (about 3 fulltime people) do ArchViz, we're using Blender 2.79b and are transitioning to Blender 2.8. Tests underneath were done using 2.8. I'm not an artist myself ...
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How can Blender automatically update a 3d model from a changing network file
How can Blender automatically update a 3d model from a changing network file?
I have a networked drive that has a 3d model, let's say an ".obj" file, that is being worked on by either multiple people,...
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Use secondary computer for rendering
I've got two machines: my developer-notebook for active working, and my standalone tower with a much better GPU. I'm simply using the tower for standalone tasks so I'm just working on it via RDP or ...
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How can I remotely access Blender 2.8?
I am trying to remotely access Blender in a host server.
Both client PC and host server have Nvidia GPUs installed that are compatible with Blender. Blender works properly in both PCs if they were ...
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Set GPU using python script no longer working
We have our own render queue manager at work, and i use a python script to set the compute device of each worker to GPU.
However, with 2.79 the script no longer works.
Here is the script i use:
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Saving Blender File to a Shared Folder Results in "Cannot change old file" Error
I'm trying to save a .blend file to a shared folder that has five computers connected to it, but when I save the file, I get a "Cannot change old file (file saved with @)" error. How can I fix this ...
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Shared Network install / config priority
I'd like to deploy Blender with a custom startup scene and some enabled addons on a network drive, so that every user here can run Blender from there with all the settings and addons.
Sounds easy ...
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Feasibility of Raspberry Pi 4 render farm [duplicate]
With the recent release of the raspberry pi 4, you can now get a model with 4 gigs of ram as opposed to the old 1 gig and quad core 1.5ghz processor as opposed to a quad core 1.2ghz processor. I've ...
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How to run blender 2.77 on a virtual network render machine with no Opengl support on windows?
I have a server that runs multiple instances of virtual machines and is running windows 10... there is a cinema 4d farm clients running there...and I need to run blender 2.77 slave mode ...but the ...
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Net Render Outputs Black .exr Files, Regardless of Selected File Type
After watching this tutorial on setting up network renders, I set about trying to make one myself. However, regardless of what file type I have selected, it keeps outputting black .exr files.
I ...
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Single Image rendering with blender netrender
I read this post (Is netrender only useful for multiple frames?) about rendering a single image with netrender.
But how can I combine those images very quickly and easily? Say for example I have 100 ...
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