Distributed rendering

[theboykidney]

Hey guys,

Does anyone know what the magic number is for DR? There's an overhead involved with each machine, just wondering what the optimum number of machines might be? Is there such a thing as too many?

Cheers.

[xsisupport]

Hey guys,

Does anyone know what the magic number is for DR? There's an overhead involved with each machine, just wondering what the optimum number of machines might be? Is there such a thing as too many?

Cheers.

4 is the magic number

[theboykidney]

Cheers Steve, does that include the host? so a total of 5, or 4?

[xsisupport]

The host (the master) can have up to 4 satellite computers.
4 was considered a decent compromise; enough to get the benefits of satellite rendering, but not too many to slow everything down with network traffic.

Edit: "not too many"