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1. Start the DR server on the slave render server machine. To do that, open the cmd and run "C:\Program Files\MAXON\Cinema 4D Rnn\plugins\V-Ray\res\libs\win64\vray.exe" -server

If you are using more than one render slave server machine, you have to perform this operation on each of them!

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You can also start the render slave server from the Start Menu > V-Ray for Cinema 4D > Launch V-Ray render slave.server

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When installing V-Ray for Cinema 4D and choosing Installation type: Standalone, note that the location of the vray.exe file will be in C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Cinema 4D\bin\vray.exe .

 

 

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2. On the render client machine, go to Cinema 4D's Render Settings > V-Ray > Common > Distributed Rendering and enable Distributed Rendering. Then, press the Render Hosts button and open the V-Ray Distributed Rendering window.

What you need to do now, is to add the render slaves servers IP's. That is the IP address of the machines that will do the render job.

You can add as many render slaves servers as you wish.

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The default Port is 20207. Please leave it as it is if you don't specifically know that you need something else.

All render slaves servers use the same port. 

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3. Render the scene.

You can see the rendering process via the new VFB.

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1. Start the DR server on the slave server machine. To do that, open the Terminal and run "/Applications/MAXON/Cinema\ 4D\ Rnn/plugins/V-Ray/res/libs/osx/vray -server"

If you are using more than one render slave server machine, you have to perform this operation on each of them!

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 2. On the render client machine, go to Cinema 4D's Render Settings > V-Ray > Common > Distributed Rendering and enable Distributed Rendering. Then, press the Render Hosts button and open the V-Ray Distributed Rendering window.

What you need to do now, is to add the render slaves servers IP's. That is the IP address of the machines that will do the render job.

You can add as many render slaves servers as you wish.

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The default Port is 20207. Please leave it as it is if you don't specifically know that you need something else.

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3. Render the scene.

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The DR Check tool can be used to query the state of render slavesservers, the number of processors on the slave machine server machine and the V-Ray version of the slaveserver.

 

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Depending on your OS, the vraydr_check executable is located as follows:

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Note: IP is the IP address of the machine that is running a V-Ray slave and render server and num is the number of the port (by default it's 20207). Example: vraydr_check -host=10.0.0.100 -port=20207

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  • The state of the slaveserver: busy or ready depending on whether the slave server machine is currently rendering or it's available for new render tasks.
  • The number of CPU threads on the slave server machine. Example: Num processors: 8.
  • The version of V-Ray installed on the slave server machine. Example: V-Ray version info: Rev 26840 Jun 29 2016.
  • The V-Ray core version. Example: V-ray core version: 3.25.01.

In case a connection cannot be established with the slaveserver, the tool will print this message:  Failed to connect to server 1.0.0.100:20207

This could mean that either something is blocking the connection, or the slave is server is not running at all on the specified IP address.

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