This page provides information about the Chaos Arena Server.



Overview

The Chaos Arena Server usually runs on a dedicated machine but it can be shared with an Operator instance for example. The server has various responsibilities:

    • Connects to the spawners
    • Loads a scene using the V-Ray App SDK
    • Starts the renderer instances on the render and operator nodes
    • Live-links to the instances and loads the scene
    • Synchronizes the rendering
    • Receives camera tracking data and sends it to the render instances
    • Distributes scenes changes
    • Synchronizes animation playback
    • Logging and statistics



UI

Open Configuration – Opens a previously saved JSON configuration file that defines all the parameters necessary for the rendering and camera tracking.

Clear Configuration – Clears the currently loaded configuration in the server.

Apply Configuration – Applies any changes to the configuration that are made in the Server user interface. The camera tracking options are applied immediately after pressing Apply Configuration, most of the other options restart the rendering.

Save Configuration – Saves all the parameters necessary for the rendering and camera tracking to a file in JSON format.

Start/Stop – Starts/stops the Arena Server.

Open Scene – Opens a .vrscene file. 

Append Scene – Import another .vrscene into the currently loaded scene.

Stop Rendering – Stops the rendering process and closes the scene and the render instances. Another scene can be loaded after that using the Open Scene… button.

Record Tracking – Records the camera tracking data to an Alembic file.