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Old 23rd April 2008
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so this 'render farm' term here... are we talking about using X computers to use their combined processing power on 1 single frame, or rather using X computers to render their own frames and compiling the images later into one movie?

is there anything wrong with installing max on all X machines, transferring the file to each machine, and telling one machine to render 0-100, the other from 101-200, the next to 201-300...and so on... then take the rendered mini-movies and combine them to one? that'd really spread the load... am I getting the idea right or am i way off the mark?

i'd love to have some kind of 'render farm' or at least one or two work stations totally dedicated to rendering...nothing else but rendering....not even MSPaint. yea... im that serious.
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