VN Ren'Py A Father's Sins [Ch. 35+36] [Pixieblink]

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beatzel said:
With what I understand of iray, it is just a server application and some clients if using multiple pcs. the "iray server network" as such is YOUR network. This IS for rendering "in house".

you install the server application and a client application on your workstation (or only the server if you don't want to render on that machine as well) and use 1 or more additional pcs which basically just have an operating system - windows or linux in this case, probably even mixed - and the render client installed. you then control the render jobs from the machine with the server running on it and the others do literally nothing except rendering.

this would probably also enable you to work on your images and animations on the pc with the server while 3 other pcs with only the client keep happily rendering. of course i don't know how your workflow is right now, but i'd think maybe you would be posing stuff OR rendering stuff, not both at the same time?
i also didn't look into the minutiae of iray, but i'd expect it to be able to start and stop specific clients on a button press so you could probably do something like "have it render on all machines while i'm afk, stop rendering on the main workstation while i'm working on it, keep the other machines rendering all the time" or something like that.

since it's a software made by nvidia as far as i understand, it might even be more performant than using daz itself. or make better use of the gpu hardware or whatever.

i might have to try that one myself... sounds interesting. too bad i don't really have anything to render... and my best nvidia card is a 4060... eh... maybe 3d print models...
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Yes thats correct
It's an "inhouse" solution with your own machines
I use it with my old GTX1070 and a Ryzen 2600 as an iray server - for "small" renders
My MainPC has a RTX4070ti - for the "bigger" ones :cool:
 
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beatzel said:
With what I understand of iray, it is just a server application and some clients if using multiple pcs. the "iray server network" as such is YOUR network. This IS for rendering "in house".

you install the server application and a client application on your workstation (or only the server if you don't want to render on that machine as well) and use 1 or more additional pcs which basically just have an operating system - windows or linux in this case, probably even mixed - and the render client installed. you then control the render jobs from the machine with the server running on it and the others do literally nothing except rendering.

this would probably also enable you to work on your images and animations on the pc with the server while 3 other pcs with only the client keep happily rendering. of course i don't know how your workflow is right now, but i'd think maybe you would be posing stuff OR rendering stuff, not both at the same time?
i also didn't look into the minutiae of iray, but i'd expect it to be able to start and stop specific clients on a button press so you could probably do something like "have it render on all machines while i'm afk, stop rendering on the main workstation while i'm working on it, keep the other machines rendering all the time" or something like that.

since it's a software made by nvidia as far as i understand, it might even be more performant than using daz itself. or make better use of the gpu hardware or whatever.

i might have to try that one myself... sounds interesting. too bad i don't really have anything to render... and my best nvidia card is a 4060... eh... maybe 3d print models...
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It is a great idea and probably the way I will go in my next upgrade. A fast computer for still renders, and a cheaper for animations.

Workflow? Start with an update storyline. Write some dialogue, imagine some scenes. Start a render. Abort. Tweak. Re-start render. Sometimes 3-4-5 times each one. Because the Daz work window isn't wysiwyg. Often their expressions, especially the eyes, are off. Or when you render you realize that their pose is a off, there's a poke through, or their body language doesn't match what they should be feeling and so on.
 
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dluser said:
you announced that you're taking a break about 6 hours ago, we miss you already !!

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sorry for the really bad photoshop job, i haven't used it since 1999, that's when me & Prince used to party all the time.
thanks to Dr.TSoni for the stock image link
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That's funny. Hell, I ain't dead. I'm just taking a little break.

The two power supplies I'm running now to test out the new render box are loaners from the local computer shop, and I have an electrician coming on Saturday to run a new line so each psu has it's own dedicated circuit. I should be back in business by the end end of the week. Then I'm going to start getting caught up on my backlog.

And all will be as if this never happened. Except for my bald headed avatar. It was the MC from my very first game, I really should update it.
 
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Pixieblink said:
That's funny. Hell, I ain't dead. I'm just taking a little break.

The two power supplies I'm running now to test out the new render box are loaners from the local computer shop, and I have an electrician coming on Saturday to run a new line so each psu has it's own dedicated circuit. I should be back in business by the end end of the week. Then I'm going to start getting caught up on my backlog.

And all will be as if this never happened. Except for my bald headed avatar. It was the MC from my very first game, I really should update it.
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I was just being funny, take all the time you need.
 
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