network render question

jimingo wrote on 6/2/2005, 3:44 PM
I have to projects ready to be rendered on one computer. I started to render one of them (I am not using a network render for this) and then I figured I'd render the other project, but set it up so it uses my other computer to render through the network. It says that it is queued but it never starts to render. I thought that it only has to wait to render if it is using the same computer to render...I have it set up to render with my other computer (non-distributed).
Am I doing something wrong or is network rendering set up so you can't render two different projects at the same time using different computers?

Thanks
-Jim

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 6/2/2005, 4:14 PM
It certainly should allow you to run non-distributed jobs simultaneously across multiple network render nodes.

I just posted a similar problem that happens to me. I have 4 nodes to work with and one of them does not take part in distributed or non-distributed rendering. I haven't figured out why yet. The only time something like this happened to me previously I would get an error from the rendering node that indicated something was wrong. This time... I get nothing... it just sits there. Does that sound like what you are seeing?
jimingo wrote on 6/2/2005, 4:20 PM
That's exactly what's happening. My computer is rendering right now, but after it gets done, I'll try to run a non-distributed render again and see if it works this time. Whenever I do a distributed render, everything works fine, although I never tried a distributed render while vegas was rendering another project.
jimingo wrote on 6/2/2005, 5:41 PM
Update: I can't network render at all from that computer....distributed or non-distributed. I used to before I installed vegas 6.0b, but now I can't. Did you get yours to render Liam?
Liam_Vegas wrote on 6/2/2005, 6:03 PM
The one that I cannot network render on is a fresh install of v6.0b (new laptop... never had vegas on it before).

I am now uninstalling V6 and re-installing to see if that helps at all.

I could have done with that extra node today.... I'll be up against the wire having to get 4 DVD's out to Fedex in less than 2 hours.

Still - even the 3 nodes I had cut down the render time significantly and without that I would have been unable to make the "last minute" changes the client suddenly decided they had to have included.