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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How do I setup Netrender on a cloud instance?
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I went ahead and built blender from git on my dreamhost cloud instance to try and see if I could use the cloud as a render service. However, I cannot find any documentation on how to set up this ...
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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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Missing background video in network render
I am using Blender 2.78
I have a video that I've motion tracked and rendered on top of using the cycle renderer. This works fine when rendering locally. I've tried doing a network render with slave ...
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How to add/mix two bump's
Hello i have a prototype for 3d modeling that have scratchy surface and also a milled logo on surface that is deeper than scratches. So I have two bump files. The question is how in Cycles separatly ...
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Network render outputs pink frames [duplicate]
My setup is a Windows 10 system running one client and one master, and two Linux Mint systems running as slaves. Four GPUs per slave.
As far as the network setup goes, everything seems normal. The ...
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In mixed-system Linux/Win network render, is there a way to specify cache directory?
I'm using the network render addon (using blender 2.78 on all machines) to render an animation on a network of computers (Master is Windows; slaves are Ubuntu). The animation uses several physics ...
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How to render particle (or in general physics) System in network renderer
I have a problem using the "network renderer" of Blender 3D. (Using blender 2.78b on every machine, clients, slaves and master) I have an explosion modifier on an object using particles which move a ...
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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 do I remove a slave from a network
I have a netrender working on a very simple animation. However, I had to restart one of the slaves, and now the slave's name is written twice.
How do I delete the node from the list?
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Network Render recognizes both computers, sees the job, but is STUCK ON QUEUE
I am running 2.78 on two identical Macbook Pros. I've setup 1 to be the slave, one to be the master, and they seem to be connected and able to send jobs... however, when I try to start the render, it ...
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Hooking Computers Together
I have a fairly top end iMac, but might have access to a couple basic windows computers. I was wondering if I could hook up the windows computers to do my 3d rendering, and leave my iMac for video ...
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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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Network Render Errno 2: No Such File or Directory
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I'm on a Mac. I'm running 2.78.
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Got the Network Rendering setup perfectly. I've sent jobs over my network. Once a job chunk is processed, the job fails due to Errno 2, No such ...
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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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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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problem with network render and fluid simulation
I have a problem:i want to render a fluid simulation animation ( with pictures) using my ubuntu server with network render, but when after i launch it, i have some images but it seems like my server ...
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blender cache on several computers
I have multiple low-performance computers, and I was wondering: could blender cache the same animation on all of them?
Now notice, I want to cache, not render. I know there are lots of answers out ...
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Does the Network Renderer addon support multiple render layers?
I have a blender scene that has multiple blender layers that I would like to render using the network renderer. Are the slaves able to render out all the render layers and return the composited image ...
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Why is client network-background-render split into one frame jobs?
When I'm trying to render a Clientjob on Networkrender by shell in background ( blender -b job1.blend -a ) The Job will be split into single 1 frame jobs on the Network Rendering system. No Clustering,...
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Running Blender off of network drive
I need to run a BGE executable off of a network drive. I can not install or run any problems off of the computer. The network drive is also quite slow.
My Questions:
Does the blender executable ...
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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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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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How to create a object of the server in the client?
I have a server and a client.
The general idea is that the client just gets input from the user and sends it to the server, which updates the scene. Every frame the server updates the common scene ...
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Everything turns black in Netrender mode
I used Cycles for rendering my scene, and I wanted to render my animation through network render. When I switch from cycles to network render, all of my objects turn black (3D view, no matter whether ...
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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 render one still image not an animation
I know it's possible to render an animation in a network by rendering every frame with one PC. However, I want to render one image.
I would like to know how.
Should I let every computer render one ...
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Problems setting ap a render farm
I'm trying to set up Blender on our renderfarm.
Main problem is, we are using blade servers without a dedicated graphics card, so when starting Blender on the server I get this error:
Can't detect 3D ...
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python socket:send and receive multi objects data
i working on a multi player game project its strategy so i need to sending data for more that one object in the same time i created a client and server and that's worked for one object in the server ...
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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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AttributeError: 'SCA_PythonController' object has no attribute 'getOwner'
I'm using v2.69 and I get this error in my terminal:
AttributeError: 'SCA_PythonController' object has no attribute 'getOwner'
I'm using Linux.
The error in the line 21. Is the problem in my ...
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How to take a screenshot of blender from within another thread in Python?
I am desperately trying to stream Blender's UI over HTTP:
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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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Network Rendering textures
I have a mix-match of computers and want to network render to them. The problem is if I make a material with an image texture, that texture is not sent to the slaves. I don't have the ability to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Network Render appears to only use one slave at a time
Blender 2.76rc3, I setup a single master, 6 slaves and one client. The processing properly distributed jobs across the slaves, however only one task is active at a time. When one slave completes ...
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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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Remote rendering on the cheap
Environment is a high school. We have older macs that have no graphics cards, so student animations (Blender 2.74) can easily take 3-5 mins per frame. I managed to procure a decent win7-based server ...
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Netrenders don't use random seeds [closed]
I recently did a netrender under Cycles with a hundred frames at five samples a frame with random seeds. However, all of the ouputs ended up the same. Why did this happen?
Here's a screenshot of my ...
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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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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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Network Render quality settings
Hopefully this is a simple question..
Ive just set up a small render farm with the "network render" plugin but I cant seem to change the render quality ... all the render options (samples, dimensions ...
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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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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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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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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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