Render Farm Software updates roundup August - October ‘18 Hey Everyone!
Winter is coming, and we’re prepared! Here’s a list of new features we added to our plugins for the months of August to October 2018.
Global Mac OS installers are now .dmg files, with additional access to Web Manager, tutorials, guides, and our forum! Low priority has returned for V-Ray jobs! renderBeamer: support for symbolic links, improved handling of mapped network drives, better updating! We have updated our terms of service with changes to data storage regulations! Improved Render Cost Calculator! Rebuilt checking procedure – all validations are made before running the UI of the plugin, single prompt for multiple errors introduced Added Render Cost Calculator Plugin logs are now created for every camera/take instance during upload Better handling of scene renaming when using Tiled Mode R20 now supported! Greyscale Gorilla Complete Suite now supported! Greyscale Gorilla’s Complete Suite Added support for Arnold Improved relinking for Phoenix FD cache assets Optimized handling for Corona Better plugin detection and deployment for Multiscatter and Phoenix FD Improved handling of Phoenix FD caches Optimized handling for referenced scenes Better handling for special characters in stacked asset node names Added support for symlinks/hardlinks instead of copying file assets to reduce scene prep duration and disk usage Better handling of frame number rendering issues by enabling “Ignore when rendering” in render settings Added Render Cost Calculator Render Cost Calculator improved for Mac OS Fixes for issues that would arise from the “Frame Range” setting
Added support for negative frame ranges Fixed path length handling for the plugin’s scene preparation procedure
New Frames render mode added with support for strips rendering with single frame input, animation rendering with a specified frame range, pre-cached GI Frames mode is dedicated to more advanced users, it’s similar to working with frames – not sketchup pages Added texture checking on startup- prompts will appear before opening the plugin UI Added Render Cost Calculator Improved speed and stability Better sequence relinking Symlink handling (Windows)
