CGRU opensource feedbacks

[NNois]

Hi, i've recently found this http://cgru.info/ for network rendering.
I know very well RoyalRender and his quality but for now this one sound interesting because it's free...

Seems a bit complicated to setup, did it worth a look ?

[FXDude]

Nice find!

Perhaps you could just try setting it up?

Installation seems pretty straight-forward unless you build your own install..
http://cgru.info/installation#page_top


Also seems to have quite interesting options! http://cgru.info/software/xsi

such as;

Simulate : Force not to simulate by setting Play Control to Frame Range

and most of all;

VariRender

VariRender can help you to automatically increment some value and to render scene with different parameters at once.
For example, particles with different seed, to increase their quantity by compositing.

VariRender Parameters:


Enable VariRender - Turn it on or off.
Attribute - Attribute name to variate. Change some object parameter and look script editor, or command line for name.
Start Value - First value to start from.
Step - Value increment.
Count - Quantity of value increments.

Afanasy Job

This is a job from CGRU examples. Rendering two passes with VariRender.

He uses particle seed as an example, but there are many times when you would want to see how an effect or something looks like with different values within a range when "lookdev-ing"
and that sounds excellent for just that! (in one go)

But do let us know if your impressions if you try it! ;;) (and/or if you miss things from RoyalRender)

[FXDude]

At first glance, seems to be missing the ability to check pass checkboxes for submission.

You can submit current, all, or a specific one at a time.

Not that it's a huge deal but..

[Draise]

This is.. a great find. Thanks!

[NNois]

for sure, i'll update you here next week