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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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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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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What is network renderer?
There's this addon called network renderer, and I have no idea what it does. I can't find it on the web. So what is 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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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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Why does Network Render require separate Master and Client roles?
As far as I understand it, this is how the Network Render addon works:
The Client is the computer with the file to render. It connects to the master, which sends out the file and sends back the ...
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How can I use Cycles to render in Google Cloud?
I want to try the free trial on Google Cloud.
Its possible render through google cloud using blender cycles?
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How may I establish a render farm over WAN?
I'm using the blender network render plugin in the official plugin list. I have a few computers throughout the internet(WAN) that I am able to render on. Assuming I can get network connectivity(...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Controling and getting feedback for robots in Blender [duplicate]
Is it possible to control, and get feedback for robots in Blender using the python API?
I'd like to have proxy objects in Blender, that I can control, that will control my reallife robot, but also ...
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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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Can Blender manipulate remote assets, without me having to download them to the client machine manually?
I have the opportunity to produce some educational videos leveraging an entertainment company's branded characters. The educational course will be delivered online and students will be using Blender ...
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Is it possible to render video sequence animations with network render?
I would like to render a lengthy video sequence in the VSE faster using network render.
It works great for 3D animations but I can't get it to work with video sequences. The result is usually a blank ...
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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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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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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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Is the Network Render addon able to render with openGL?
I would like to render an openGL preview using my rendering network, but there is no such option in the rendering engines dropdown. What can I do?
I built the rendering network with "Network Render" ...
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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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Is netrender still only useful for multiple frames?
I saw this post from 2013 and this post stating that the NetRender plugin does not yet have the ability to render single frames properly. Is this still true, or is the functionality just hidden away ...
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Setup network render for cycles render on LAN
I am trying to setup network render with cycles as the rendering engine. My use involves rendering hundreds of images and I have already written logic for it in python which is working fine on single ...
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How to know when object are deleted?
I use blender as a network client. I'm able to know when objects are updated (via handlers). But I would like to notify the server when a object (or mesh, animation, etc.) are removed, how can I do ...
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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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How can I use Network Render on viewport's "Rendered" mode?
I know that Blender can use Network Render to send jobs to several computers, but when working on a Cycles Renderer file I often switched to "Rendered" viewport shading to view the result as I move or ...
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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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How to find which machine rendered a specific frame in a render farm
I have 6 servers rendering the same project (not using the Network Render add-on). All of the servers are exporting into a shared network folder.
Some frames have issues; how can I find the faulty ...
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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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Rendering to Google Drive?
I have a blend that's 493 frames long.
I have 2 pc's. A desktop and a laptop. I usually bring the laptop to work.*
I looking for a way to render the same blend on both the desktop and the laptop and ...
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Blender Hair System uses different seed on different computers
I am trying to render a pretty complex hair setup on our local network of workstations with cycles X. I use 3.0.0. The machines all render to our production server with placeholders. Works fine ...
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Set GPU as render device when using Net Render
I have setup my master and slave blender servers following steps 1 through 16 on this link.
I can send jobs to the networked system and it renders but I can not, despite trying a great many things, ...
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What firewall settings are necessary for a render farm?
I don't use Blender myself, but it is installed in our teaching labs. I'm the system administrator for these labs, and I'm trying to configure the computers so that one of our students can use them ...
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Blender in the webbrowser?
Is there available a version of Blender which can be started from the web browser?
I am not referring to a plugin to display the models, but rather to a cloud based version.
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Network rendering disconnects computers
I'm trying to use the Network Render over several computers and everything starts out great. All of my slaves connect just fine. After awhile of things processing though, the slaves get disconnected (...
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Cloth Simulation Not Rendering Correctly Over Network
I have been messing around with cloth simulations and linking cloth simulations into new scenes to render over a network of computers to help the rendering process go faster.
I ran into a few ...
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What is better for rendering in cycles? A network? Or a single monster workstation?
Is it better to have multiple render nodes and do rendering over the network?
If so - is there a special software to set this up and is it hard to configure this? Is there a max amount of render ...
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_pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <class 'Vector'>: attribute lookup Vector on builtins failed
i get this error in every time i run my client code i tried to defined mathutils lib but i still get it
File "Client.py", line 34, in
_pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle : attribute lookup ...
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Renderfarm ERROR:EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION
I have 4 computers running blender where 2 of them are slaves, one is a master, and one is the client. I am using the Network Render Add-on.
After about 50% of the render is complete, I get the ...
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Can I use my two PC on my own network to Farm Render in Blender?
Is it possible to use Cycles engine to render only GPU based from two computers in Blender in my own network at home? TY.
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I can not set a http proxy in Blender
I am using Blender behind a firewall with a proxy.
When anything , e.g. an addon needs to connect to the internet, this fails.
Is there a way to set a http/https proxy in blender ?
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NET_RENDER keep getting RuntimeError: Error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
I'm trying to make a net_render render farm on a cloud platform and I keep getting "RuntimeError: Error: [Errno 32] Broken pipe". code dump:
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Delete output image file on error
I am currently supervising a render farm which is working using the simple "create empty file when starting a frame" and "don't overwrite existing files" on a shared network file system approach. ...
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How to get client script to run before rendering on Network Render
Using Blender's Network Render addon, I am trying to render on a client's GPU using this script:
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Using a computer on another side of the planet
Good day Blender community!
I got a question Is it possible to use a PC on the side of the planet to render? Is there a way to connect them through the internet and use them as slaves?
So my online ...
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How to draw a graph tree?
I am simulating some abstract trees (not plants) and would like to render them on blender.
My original thought was to draw a path using the API and then somehow give it a volume. Unfortunately I ...
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