A 3Delight Collective allows you to render a single image, including through with IPR, faster by using several computers from your network. It is selected through the 3Delight Preferences. But to select and render with a 3Delight Collective (in the sidebar of 3Delight Display). For the 3Delight Collective option to be available, it must first be defined. This is done by providing a list of computers/servers and giving it a name. You can in fact define more than one collectiveIn this same manner, you can define several distinct collectives. Here is an example of 5 collectives that can be defined in a large studiogiven production facility:
Rack-1 — All the The servers located in rack number 1.
Rack-2 — All the The servers located in rack number 2.
Lighter-A — A group of servers you want to dedicate to lighter A.
Lighter-B — A group of servers you want to dedicate fo lighter B.
All-servers — All the servers.
The The 3Delight Collective is defined through a simple JSON file. Here is Assuming a facility with 10 servers, named server01 to server10, here is how to build such a file for the above 5 collectives example which makes it self explanatory:
{"Rack-1" : [ "server01,24", "server02,24", "server03,24", "server04,24", "server05,24" ],"Rack-2" : [ "server06,24", "server07,24", "server08,24", "server09,24", "server10,24" ],"Lighter-A" : [ "server01,2416", "server02,2416", "server03,9616" ],"Lighter-B" : [ "server04,2416", "server05,2416", "server06,9616" ],"ALLAll-servers" : [ "server01,24", "server02,24", "server03,24", "server04,24", "server05,24", "server06,24", "server07,24", "server08,24", "server09,24", "server10,24" ]} |
With Equipped with this file, which can be saved wherever you choose among your installation, eg. "
~/projects/MyCollective.json"want as part of your installation, all you have to do is point to it in the 3delight.config configuration file by adding that line:
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