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Chaos Cloud rendering requires the installation of the Chaos Cloud client application. For more information, see the Installation of Chaos Cloud client page.

 

Overview

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You can submit render jobs to Chaos Cloud rendering either directly from your host 3D platform through the Chaos Cloud client or manually through any command line interface.

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For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Maya3ds Max, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for 3ds MaxMaya, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Modo, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Revit, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for SketchUp, click here .

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Rhino, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Houdini, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Cinema 4D, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Blender, click here.

For more information on how to run a render job on Chaos Cloud rendering from V-Ray for Unreal, click here.

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Once the scene is successfully analyzed, you have to finalize some of the settings of the render job before it starts rendering in Chaos Cloud rendering.

 

 

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Submitting an animation

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Submitting a still image

 

 

The output image types that you are able to download by rendering in Chaos Cloud are JPG and the file type you have specified in the settings of your scene. These settings are customized in the 3D application you use for designing your scene. If you don’t specify anything in the 3D application, Chaos Cloud rendering generates an EXR image beside the JPG one.

If you have enabled the Include additional JPG output toggle in the Options page, Chaos Cloud rendering generates an additional high-quality JPG file for your output at no extra cost. * - see the the Known Issues section section for a disclaimer.

When submitting a render job requesting TIFF and/or TGA images as a result, the results might be unexpected as not all TIFF and TGA settings are exported to Chaos Cloud rendering.

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Note that the supported output image formats by Chaos Cloud rendering, regardless of the host application, are: *.png, *.bmp, *.tga, *.hdr, *.sgi, *.rgb, *.rgba, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.exr, *.pic, *.tif, *.tiff and *.vrimg.

 


When rendering animations, Frame Range and Frame Step parameters appear.

Frame range – Specifies a frame range to be rendered. You can specify non-sequential animation frames, e.g. 1-3,7,9,12-15.

Frame step – Specifies a frame step in the frame range for rendering. For example, writing 8 in the Frame step box, will render every eight frame, hence the eight, the sixteenth, the twenty-fourth, etc. Note that the first frame is always rendered.

 



The cost for rendering a still image job can be limited by using the Job Credit Limit setting. For more information, see the Credit Limit section. 

 



By enabling the Upload only option, the job is uploaded to Chaos Cloud rendering, but it stays Paused until manually resumed.

 


 

The Chaos Scans material library is hosted in Chaos Cloud rendering and is kept up-to-date. This means that Chaos Scans materials do not have to be uploaded each time, making scene submission significantly faster.

 


 

When ready, click the Submit button. When you are presented with the following message your render job is submitted successfully and it will start rendering in the cloud. If there are available resources in the cloud, Chaos Cloud will start rendering immediately. Otherwise, your job will join a queue and will automatically start to render when resources become available.

 

 

Clicking on View Job redirects you to the Projects tab of Chaos Cloud. There you can monitor the status of your render jobs, download them, organize them in projects, resubmit, or delete them. For more detailed information on these topics, see the Managing render jobs in Chaos Cloud page.

 


Known Issues


When the Include additional JPG output option is disabled, this is not reflected in the Submit and Clone job screens. This does not mean that the option is still active. This is a known issue which will be fixed.

 

Render Engine Overrides


When rendering a V-Ray GPU job the CUDA CPU Override option allows you to override the render engine to render with CUDA on CPU only. This can be useful when:

  • there is no GPU hardware available to render the V-Ray GPU job
  • the 16 GB of memory, available on the GPU hardware that Chaos Cloud rendering uses, are not enough for the job to render

When Chaos Cloud rendering detects that there is no GPU hardware available, it shows a warning which asks you whether you want to wait for a GPU hardware and gives you an option to use another command which:

  • Stops the rendering of the current job
  • Clones the current job and sets the CUDA CPU Override option to ON so the job renders only on CPU
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When the job is rendered, you can see whether it is a V-Ray GPU or a V-Ray job in the Job Details. If it is a V-Ray GPU job, Chaos Cloud rendering shows whether it has rendered only on CPU.

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Output Naming Convention


Upon job submission, you can choose the naming convention of the output file(s). You can find the following options in the Output naming panel:

<name> – Specifies the main name of the output.

<render element> – Specifies the position of the render element(s) in the naming convention, if there are such.

<###> – Specifies the padding of the frame's number. This option is available only for animated jobs.

Using the arrows, you can move the position of each name component to customize the output name(s).

 

 

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Jobs can also be submitted easily through the Standalone Chaos Cloud rendering application in one of two ways. To do so, you will first need to have your scene exported as a .vrscene file from your host platform.

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For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for 3ds Max, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Maya, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for SketchUp, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Rhino, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Revit, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Cinema 4D, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Houdini, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Unreal, click here.

 

1). Navigate to the location of ccloud.exe or ccloud and launch it:

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Another way of submitting jobs through the Chaos Cloud Application is by using command line interface. To use the interface, you first need to have your scene exported as a .vrscene file from your host platform.

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titleFor platform-specific information, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for 3ds Max, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Maya, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for SketchUp, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Rhino, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Revit, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Cinema 4D, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Houdini, click here.

For more information on how to export a .vrscene file from V-Ray for Unreal, click here.

 

To submit jobs through the Chaos Cloud Application by using the command line interface To do so, run the following command with ccloud or ccloud.exe:

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Keep in mind that ccloud is not added automatically to the system path. You need to navigate to its location, depending on the OS of your choice. By default:

Windows –  %appdata%\Chaos Group\Cloud\Client\ccloud.exe
macOS –macOS 
/Applications/ChaosGroup/Cloud/Client/ccloud
Linux –  $HOME/.ChaosGroup/vcloud/client/ccloud.bin


This is one of the possible ways of operating Chaos Cloud rendering through command line interface. For a full list of commands, see Managing render jobs in Chaos Cloud rendering or run the "help" command with ccloud or ccloud.exe.

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  • .vrimg is a Chaos proprietary file format used by the V-Ray Frame Buffer to store the rendered image incrementally (bucket by bucket) while rendering in full floating-point format, with all available render elements. It is used as a render output but it is not recommended to use it as a texture file format. VRIMG contains metadata, i.e. render statistics. It supports dynamic bucket size.

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