A 3Delight Collective allows you to render a single image faster by using several computers from your network. It is selected either through the Processing Options (in the sidebar of 3Delight Display) or, for rendering using renderdl, through a command line option.
For the 3Delight Collective option to be available, it must first be setup. There are three steps that needs to be done, typically by the person responsible for the 3Delight installation:
It is only a matter of listing computers and associating them with a name. Lets make an example of defining the following 5 collectives in a hypothetical production facility:
Rackmount-1 — The servers located in rack number 1.
Rackmount-2 — 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.
Assuming the facility has 10 servers, named server01 to server10, here is how to build the JSON file for the above 5 collectives:
{ "Rackmount-1" : [ "server01", "server02", "server03", "server04", "server05" ], "Rackmount-2" : [ "server06", "server07", "server08", "server09", "server10" ], "Lighter-A" : [ "server01,16", "server02,16", "server03,16" ], "Lighter-B" : [ "server04,16", "server05,16", "server06,16" ], "All-servers" : [ "server01", "server02", "server03", "server04", "server05", "server06", "server07", "server08", "server09", "server10" ] } |
This file can be named and saved wherever you choose among your installation. Assuming you saved the file in "~/MyCollective.json", you just add the following line in the 3delight.config configuration file so that 3Delight knows about it:
collective ~/MyCollective.json
With this information, the 3Delight Collective option will be available among the Processing Options and accompanied with a menu to select which collective to use (if there are more than one):
A lightweight "service" program (or daemon in Linux) need to be installed on each machine that is part of a collective. For that, run the following command:
On Windows:
C:\>
collective -installservice
On macOS:
% mv /Applications/3Delight/com.3delight.collective.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
← to launch the licence server when the current user logs in
% sudo mv /Applications/3Delight/com.3delight.collective.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/
← to launch the license server when the system is started.
On Linux: ... (to be completed)
Additional Notes