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Basic Procedures for Network Rendering 171
• All of the computers have names that start
with letters. Machine names that start with a
number will fail.
• You haven’t previous attempted network
rendering. If you have already attempted
network rendering and want to return to the
original state, delete everything in the
\Program
Files\Autodesk\Backburner\Network
folder
except
nrres.dat .
• Manager and Server have not been installed as
services.
Summar y of Procedures
• Procedure 1 - U se this procedure for
configuring a single system to render jobs
to itself; in other words, to per form batch
renderingthatismanagedbyBackburner.
• Procedure 2 - U se this procedure for
configuring a Backburner Manager system
to render to one or more Backburner Server
systems. The Manager system w i ll
not be
involved in the rendering tasks.
• Procedure 3 - U se this procedure for configuring
the Backburner Manager
and Backburner
Server systems to render tasks together.
Special Consideration for Procedures 2 an d 3
To use a render farm, you must output a frame
sequence in a stil l -image file format; for example, a
series of BMP files. You cannot render animated
fileformatssuchasAVI,MOV,andFLCtomultiple
systems. You must render animated files to a
single system. When rendering to an animated
file format, the Use All Servers check box in the
Network Job Assignment dialog is unavailable.
Basic Procedure 1: Single-System
Networ k Render ing
This procedure describes usage of network
rendering on a single computer. The main
advantage to this method over standard rendering
is that you can submit multiple rendering jobs
for the computer to render. In effect, this lets you
perform batch rendering.
1. Start the Backburner Manager and Backburner
Ser ver. See S
etting Up Backburner Manager
for the Rendering Network and Settin g Up
Backburner Server for the Rendering Network.
2. Start 3ds Max and load the first scene you want
to render.
3. From the Rendering menu, choose
Render, or click the toolbar Render Scene
button.
4. Set the rendering parameters and specif y an
output file name. In the Render Output group
ontheCommontab,turnonNetRender,and
then click the Render button.
The Network Job Assignment dialog appears.
Network Job Assignment dialog showing the server
station that is also running Manager.
5. Enter a job name (it’s a good idea to change
the default name) and then click the Connect
button.
The name of your computer (that is, the Server)
appears in the Server window to the right. I t