Qmaster.... Is this right?
by Gunleik Groven
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Jan 19, 2008 at 8:47:19 pm
So I went a way for a couple of days and brought a couple of laptops to make my small renderfarm, thinking: This is the time to understand Qmaster for Shake renders
I installed (the free rendernodes...) Qmaster on thew other macs, but it doesn't work.
Do I need to install Shake on the other computers?
Does the lisence allow for that?
Or is it really supposed to work with just Qmaster (as I thougt)
And if I had brought my serial (which I didn't, so I just have my MBP...) and had installed shake on the additional computers, would a qmaster render lead to the "there's another instance of Shake running on your network" error?
In case, it's not really free, but a shake lisence pr node...
Is there anything else (downloadable) I could buy/use?
Re: Qmaster.... Is this right? by Andrew Shanks on Jan 19, 2008 at 11:58:58 pm
Qmaster is purely a renderfarm system, it is made to work with the likes of shake, compressor, maya, ...and you can even get after effects to render on it as well, ...but it does require these other applications to do anything, as it is really a glorified remote control schedule system that just controls the running of these apps.
So yeah, I think you'll find you need to have shake installed on the other machines (I confess its been ages since i've had to deal with any renderfarm setups myself, ...do a search on this forum, I think we covered this a bit the start of last year). The way i seem to remember it working is that Qmaster just runs with the commandline version of shake, ...all under the hood on each computer node, and because it isn't loading up the full GUI application, it won't get all upset that you're running the same application on multiple computers at once (the EULA allows for as many render nodes as you like after all). The only pain will be if you are using 3rd party plugins, as these have to be installed on each laptop too, and a lot of 3rd party plugins will require licences for the additional machines in order to run.
