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Re: Rendering over lan?
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Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:48:57 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Eduardo Vazquez Harte writes:
I have a lan connection of my desktop PC and my laptop I have win XP on PC
and WIN 2K on laptop. Is it possible to use both computers same time over
lan so I can render faster?

That is entirely dependent on the rendering engine. PovRay is single
threaded, so the only way to do it is to run multiple copies. This has other
problems, but there's a bit of a discussion about how to do it here
http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/309/

ROSCO



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There is another way, but it's not for the feint of heart. It's distributed raytracing. People have hacked pov and made it run across multiple machines. I'm not sure if it's actually been done on Windows OSs yet, bet it has worked for other people (...) (22 years ago, 12-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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I have a lan connection of my desktop PC and my laptop I have win XP on PC and WIN 2K on laptop. Is it possible to use both computers same time over lan so I can render faster? If how? (22 years ago, 11-Dec-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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