9 year old iMac - render FARM for daz3d
PauloCoe
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Hello guys
I read many topics on this forum about cloud render farms and stuff. But I don't really understand it.
My iMac is 9 years old and takes hours for any kind of renders.
Therefore I am looking for a service that have a plugin to connect to daz3d. I was looking at animerender, but for this kind of service I would need to manually get all the stuff out of my library they told me.
Anyone who can help me on this? Or doing the renders for me? But I think then the same problem exists, how to get the files.
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DS will use Iray Server, you don't need to transfer your content as content - when you tell DS to render using the connected account (which is configured in Render Settings) it sends the dataa cross in the form that Iray needs.
Ok. Do you have any site/server for this that you can suggest?
Just to share with you, that's the result after 10 hours renderin on my old iMac.
Nice render!
From what I understand (and folks, correct me if I'm wrong) is whoever renders for you must own the products. You can't share them. I have close to 25,000 Daz products and a powerful Titan laptop (see signature, click the link. And mine is enhanced from the one described) and what used to take me 6 hours I can do in about 30 minutes (or less) to an hour. Just depends. I think the example you posted, my computer would do in about twenty minutes or so.
I'm not going to be anyone's go-to for renders, I can do a couple, but if one is really intensive for you, drop me a PM with the list of ALL the products you used (with links so I can easily check to see if I own them) and I'll be happy to examine the possibility of rendering it for you. Depends on how tied up I am in the studio with my own work. No charge, happy to help.
Something else I miss about LuxRender. I have a few Linux boxes collecting dust that used to be a part of my small render farm.
Honestly render farms can be boon or bain.
They can be a very cost effective solution, depending on one's needs.
For a hobbiest, i rarely recommend them, as they can easily get to the cost of a gpu upgrade, or even an entire system's cost over 1yrs time, if not shorter.
As an example, Jack tomlin(one of Daz's PA's) runs a render service that is either PAYGO or a monthly fee.
At the low end, for the monthly fee, the yearly is $600($50/month). That's more than the cost of an rtx 2070 super($500 on newegg).
This is where the boon and bane part comes in.
Not everybody can pay $600 in just one shot, nor can they wait a year to buy a particular part.(bane)
So that $50 a month can be a better option.(boon)
There is also the option of the secondary parts market.
Sure the options aren't going to be the latest and greatest, but, depending on one's current situation, it may be a more viable solution.
In the OP's case, i'd recommend a full system upgrade, as opposed to eeking out another year on the imac.
Nothing against macs, here folks, it's just the system is more of a paperweight, spec wise and in upgradeability, than what one could put together for around $200-300 on ebay, gpu included.
As a gtx 1060, 6gb, can be had for around 160, and a used optiplex, with 32gb ram, is around 120-150(tower, not sff or desktop style, those require some additional hardware to be viable). and a crappy amd gpu(1-2GB is fine), for video out(don't use the same card for rendering and video out folks, it just leads to problems), and, you're around $300.
If you don't mind building a system, or dealing with servers or really old systems, or some more "interesting"(aka cryptomining) solutions, than the skys the limit.
Just weigh the options and see which one is the most viable for you.
Are you saying they can be a money-sink?