This page provides information on the process of submitting render jobs to V-Ray Cloud.
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Overview
Submitting render jobs to V-Ray Cloud is easy and straightforward. You can either do it directly from your host 3D platform; through the V-Ray Cloud Client; or manually, through any command-line interface. This page guides you through the ways of doing so.
V-Ray Cloud requires the installation of the V-Ray Cloud Client application. For more information, please visit the Installation of V-Ray Cloud Client page.
If there are free resources in the cloud, V-Ray Cloud will start rendering your job immediately. If there are no free resources, your job will join a queue and will start rendering automatically when resources become available.
If you add a new version of a job you have already submitted, its upload will be much quicker than the initial upload. V-Ray Cloud compares every new job to the existing ones, and if there is a match the client app will upload only the changes. This is useful when you make a new iteration of an existing scene and is why it's recommended to keep your jobs in V-Ray Cloud while you are still working on them.
Submitting render jobs through host applications
Submitting render jobs through any V-Ray compatible 3D platform is as easy as clicking on one button. Depending on the platform you use, there is a dedicated Render in V-Ray Cloud button which will automatically send and load the scene in V-Ray Cloud.
Once the scene is successfully analyzed, you have to finalize some of the settings of the render job before it starts rendering in V-Ray Cloud. When ready, click the Submit button. If you are presented with the following message, then your render job has been submitted successfully and it will start rendering shortly on our cloud. Clicking on View Job will redirect you to the Projects tab of V-Ray Cloud where 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 please proceed to the Managing render jobs in V-Ray Cloud page.
Submitting render jobs through the V-Ray Cloud application
Jobs can also be easily submitted through the Standalone V-Ray Cloud application. To do so, you will first need to have your scene exported as a .vrscene file from your host platform.
Navigate to the location of vcloud.exe (Windows) or vcloud (macOS, Linux) and launch it. V-Ray Cloud will automatically start in your web browser and prompt you to submit a .vrscene file.
Use V-Ray Cloud's interface to locate the .vrscene file on your local drive. The button shows the contents of the previous folder while the
buttons change the way items are listed.
When you select a .vrscene file for rendering, you will be presented with the Submit Job window from the previous section. Set the final render settings and click Submit.
Submitting render jobs through the V-Ray Cloud application (command-line)
Another way of submitting jobs through the V-Ray Cloud application is by using command-line interface. To do so, run the following command with vcloud or vcloud.exe:
vcloud job submit --sceneFile="path to .vrscene file"
This command will only work if you have selected a project as your Default Project from V-Ray Cloud's interface. If you haven't, then the exact project name should also be specified, with the addition of the following command:
vcloud job submit --sceneFile="path to .vrscene file" --project="name of V-Ray Cloud Project"
This is one of the possible ways of operating V-Ray Cloud through command-line interface. For a full list of commands please refer to the Managing render jobs in V-Ray Cloud page, or run the "help" command with vcloud or vcloud.exe.