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Advanced Settings Dialog 193
won’tbefinisheduntiltheslowermachinerenders
itshalfofthefinalimage.ButifyousetNumber
Of Strips to 4, the faster machine can render three
of the strips while the slower machine renders one,
effectively halv ing the total render time.
This setting is interdependent with and inversely
propor tional to the St rip Height setting; increase
one, and the software decreases the other .
Overlap—Settheamountbywhicheachstrip
overlaps the adjoi ning one(s). You can set this in
pixels or as a percentage of the final image height.
A certain amount of overlap is necessary to
compensate for image artifacts created by
antialiasing and render effects. If you not ice
anomalies where the image slices meet, try
increasing the Overlap setting.
Pixels/Percentage—Determines whether the Strip
Height and Overlap settings represent pixels or a
percentageofthefinalimageheight. Choosing
a different option automatically changes the two
values accordingly.
Delete Tempora r y Ima ges Upon
Co mpletion—
Deletes the “slice ” images
after the final image is created. Default=off.
Advanced S ettings Dial og
Rendering menu > Render > Render Scene dialog >
Turn on Net Render (Render Output group). > Render >
Network Job Assignment dialog > Advanced
Rendering menu > Render To Texture > Render To Texture
dialog > Turn on Net Render (Render Settings group) >
Render > Network Job Assignment d ialo g > Advanced
Renderingmenu>VideoPost>Setupasequencewith
an Image O utput Event > Turn on Net Render (Output
group) > Render > Network J ob Assignment dialog >
Advanced
The Advanced Sett ings dialog lets you set job
timeouts on a p er-job basis, assign the TCP por t
number, specify pre-render scripts and affect job
handling and archive settings.
Interfa ce
Per J ob Timouts G roup
Enable—Turns on the ability to set timeouts on a
per-jobbasis.Theremainingsettingsinthisgroup
become available only when Enable is turned on.
Wa it fo r M AX to Load —Specifies the a m ou nt of time
after a job is submitted that the Manager waits for
aservertoreportthatitreceivedtheframeand
is rendering. If this value is exceeded, an error
message is log ged for a failed frame, and t he frame
is assigned to a different server.
Wa it fo r MAX t o Ren de r—Specifies the amount of
time the manager waits between when a server
reportsthatithasstartedandfinishedrendering
a frame. If a server exceeds the specified value, it
is flagged as "failed" by the manager, and no more
frames from that job are sent to it.