Hi,

I work for a studio which does medical animation and 3d modelling (really neat-o stuff). I've been put in charge of managing the rendering of a rather large project. Unfortunately, multihost rendering is broken in the program (the NT/Win2K version) we use to create all our work.

I have been trying to come up with some ideas about how I can possibly distribute and render files across our (unfortunately NT) network using Perl (I dream of someday having all *nix machines here). Our systems have dual CPUs - the renderer does not take advantage of this, so we run two concurrent renderings on each box.
From my initial experimentations, I discovered that the renderer will not launch correctly using Win32::Process.

I truly appreciate the wisdom of the monks - I have visited often to search for answers.

TIA,
-dys

if anyone is really interested, I can post our URL (our store is all done in Perl!).

In reply to distribute render jobs by dystrophy

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