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Rendering is a serious job as your machine will be unusable for hours thereby leaving you nothing else to do but to play with your fingers or watch the television. But you can harness the power of those redundant computers in your house and reduce the time spent on this task. For the purpose of this discourse, we will be making use of Blender v2.48a, Indigo v1.1.18 and Blendigo v1.1.14 and Windows XP. Basically, the computer that starts a render is referred to as the 'master' while those connected to the master are called 'slaves'. In addition, the system that is both managing the farm and contributing its own CPU power is referred to as a 'working master'. The first step is to install the Indigo v1.1.18 and pull it out to your C:\Program Files folder. The precise location you saved it is not that important, but make sure that you state the path in the next step. The second step is to create a BAT file which is a series of written instructions for windows to follow. The result produced is the same as typing into the command prompt, but if you use a BAT file, it will save you the headache of typing it every time you want to use it. A BAT file can be created using the notepad by typing; cd C:\Program File\indigo_v1.1.18 indigo.exe -n s This will instruct Windows to go to C:\Program File\indigo_v1.1.18 and run indigo.exe in network (-n) slave (s) mode. Save the file to your desktop as 'indigo_network_slave.bat' and change the type to 'All Files'. The third step is to run the.BAT by double-clicking the icon you just created on your desktop and Indigo will be opened in 'Slave mode'. Subsequently, the panel ought to declare that it is 'Listening on port XXXX' and the slave is now standing by but will continue to be on standby pending the time that the master will send works. The fourth step is to reach for the Master computer and open the scene that you wan to render. Within the System Tab of Blendigo, put on 'Working Master' and hit 'Export Scene', the rendering process has now begun. That is not the climax of the process because there is step five where you will check the slave and master to be sure that the rendering is going on smoothly. The slave machine ought to be receiving commands from the master machine in order to commence the rendering process. Furthermore, the master machine ought to show a message comparable to this; Receiving frame from 192.170.0.101:1205: num_samples: 1600000.000000 width: 1200 height: 908 Frame received. (lock wait time: 0.00 s, transfer time: 2.29 s) If you like, you can exterminate the render on the Master machine but whenever you export it again, he slave machines will reconnect again automatically. Visit Fox Render Farm for quality rendering services.
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