any docs for network rendering ?

[FooZe]

unfortunately i have not familiarity with command line prompt. do you mean window "cmd" ? or is it something else ? anyhow, i dont know how to run anything that way. I have run the provided script and i can see that " run_octane_slave_daemon.bat" has been installed in the startup folder - but after windows reboots there is no new terminal window as there should be.

Yup, cmd.exe is the command prompt. So there is nothing in the task bar either? (It should start minimised.)

If not please try this
1) Right click on run_octane_slave_daemon.bat in the startup folder and click edit
(It should come up in notepad or some other text editor)
2) put "pause" at the bottom and click save, it should now look something like this:

Now close notepad and double click run_octane_slave_daemon.bat. Does anything come up now? If so please post a screenshot.

Thanks
Chris.

[ltchest]

thankyou for your help. I edited the .bat file and i then get a cmd.exe window which says "press any key to continue". then it just goes away and nothing else happens. This is my bat file content

@echo off
start "Octane Slave Daemon" /MIN "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave_daemon.exe" --port 48000 --slave "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave.exe" --alias "%COMPUTERNAME%" --gpus "default: all"
pause

[FooZe]

thankyou for your help. I edited the .bat file and i then get a cmd.exe window which says "press any key to continue". then it just goes away and nothing else happens. This is my bat file content

@echo off
start "Octane Slave Daemon" /MIN "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave_daemon.exe" --port 48000 --slave "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave.exe" --alias "%COMPUTERNAME%" --gpus "default: all"
pause

Can you please remove the pause again and change the 2nd line to:
start "Octane Slave Daemon" /MIN "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave_daemon.exe" --port 48000 --slave "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave.exe" --alias "%COMPUTERNAME%"

ie: remove the text "--gpus "default: all"

So the file should read:
@echo off
start "Octane Slave Daemon" /MIN "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave_daemon.exe" --port 48000 --slave "C:\Program Files\OTOY\OctaneRender 2.00\octane_slave.exe" --alias "%COMPUTERNAME%"

Thanks
Chris.

[ltchest]

Thats it - thats really nice ! thanks. So was that my incorrect syntax regarding the GPU count ?
Also, does the new octane measure samp/pix samp/s differently than the previous version ?
I know about the speed slowdown, but am wondering if with the new version its a direct comparison or not ?
For example, with this network rendering i am using 3 extra GTX780 cards on a rendering but the samp/s is
very close (almost the same) as what it was with the 1.xx version (with only 2 x GTX 580, instead of 2 x 580 + 3 x 780)

[FooZe]

Thats it - thats really nice ! thanks. So was that my incorrect syntax regarding the GPU count ?
Also, does the new octane measure samp/pix samp/s differently than the previous version ?
I know about the speed slowdown, but am wondering if with the new version its a direct comparison or not ?
For example, with this network rendering i am using 3 extra GTX780 cards on a rendering but the samp/s is
very close (almost the same) as what it was with the 1.xx version (with only 2 x GTX 580, instead of 2 x 580 + 3 x 780)

Yes, it's possible you put something unexpected into the GPU's field when setting up the daemon.
There should be a slow down of about 25% maximum (depending on the scene). I would not expect what you are seeing. It may be that the samples per pixel are incorrectly reported for some reason.
Are the additional GPU's on the slave?

Thanks
Chris.

[ltchest]

yes - they are on the slave, which seemed to have all 3 GPU's running at 100% load - and i am not using any of the new features (like displacement etc). Its a simple scene

[Martians]

Why is network rendering limited to 12 GPU's?

Will this limitation be removed at some point?

[bcravin]

Ok, I have Octane 2.01 standalone installed on my slave machine. I have a second license of 2.01 standalone on my workstation with 3ds max plugin for 3ds max 2014. Daemon is running properly on my slave. When I open up standalone Octane on my workstation it sees the slave and gpu's just fine no problem. When I open up max and go to Network tab it shows nothing at all. What is going on here? is it a problem with the Max plugin? or would I have to buy the max plugin for the slave as well?

[abstrax]

Ok, I have Octane 2.01 standalone installed on my slave machine. I have a second license of 2.01 standalone on my workstation with 3ds max plugin for 3ds max 2014. Daemon is running properly on my slave. When I open up standalone Octane on my workstation it sees the slave and gpu's just fine no problem. When I open up max and go to Network tab it shows nothing at all. What is going on here? is it a problem with the Max plugin? or would I have to buy the max plugin for the slave as well?

Two things: You can have only one master running on the same computer at any time. So when you start Standalone, it becomes the master and when you start the plugin it would be a second master, but the network sockets are already occupied by the Standalone. So you would have to close Standalone first and then start the plugin.

The 3ds max plugin uses currently SDK version 2.00, which means you have to use the slave and daemon of version 2.00 (from here: http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=40381), because the version of master and slave need to match exactly. Andrey will release an update probably soon (he has been working on it since quite a while).

[bcravin]

Thank you abstrax,

I have re-installed 2.00 standalone on both workstation and slave. I am running Max plugin version 2.0.7a , I don't have standalone open on either computers. So, now I have my slave showing up in the Max Octane Network Tab, but it is showing up as Invalid Slave. I'm assuming that I'm running the wrong 3ds Max plugin, but I can't seem to find a different version. The link you gave me in the previous post is a large forum so I'm sure If i should be using the version that is in the first post or maybe a later version that was posted...?