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Sever render

juliano.cruz_97bea1265ejuliano.cruz_97bea1265e Posts: 76
edited July 2020 in Product Suggestions

Hi,

I'm here to give you a suggestion!

We know Iray takes a long time to render with the best results, and a lot of people don't have NVidia GPU cards.
I have an iMac late 2012 with a NVidia GPU card, but it's too old and not compatible with Iray render, so my computer uses CPU to render.
For all mac users, the brand new machines comes with Radeon GPU card onboard, so you always will take hours or days to have a nice quality render no matter how new is your machine.

My suggestion is to create a computer farm to render. 

Daz would make a computer farm with Nvidia GPU cards to render, and on Daz Studio, put an option on render engine called "Server render" with all the Iray parameters.
Daz would offer that as a service with plans based in the quantity/quality of the renders.

What do you guys think about it?

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Comments

  • Pantros2Pantros2 Posts: 83

    i know there are 3rd party render farms out there.

    I know Nvidia charges a ton for a render farm license. But this could be covered by charging a fee for the service.

    It's a good idea. I have to wonder how many hobbyists would subscribe to a service or pay by the CPU cycle. This might be the only reason Daz wouldn't. The sheer size of a server farm with GPUs to handle a handful of simultaneous renders might be very cost prohibitive.

     

  • SevrinSevrin Posts: 6,307

    Not the Daz official render server, but close!

    http://www.jacktomalin.com/iray/

  • juliano.cruz_97bea1265ejuliano.cruz_97bea1265e Posts: 76
    Sevrin said:

    Not the Daz official render server, but close!

    http://www.jacktomalin.com/iray/

    Yes, it's something like that!!!!
    A Daz official with tons of machines would be better, but is very good to know there is solution for that already!
    Thank you to share!

  • juliano.cruz_97bea1265ejuliano.cruz_97bea1265e Posts: 76
    Pantros2 said:

    i know there are 3rd party render farms out there.

    I know Nvidia charges a ton for a render farm license. But this could be covered by charging a fee for the service.

    It's a good idea. I have to wonder how many hobbyists would subscribe to a service or pay by the CPU cycle. This might be the only reason Daz wouldn't. The sheer size of a server farm with GPUs to handle a handful of simultaneous renders might be very cost prohibitive.

     

    Yes, as a hobbyist I think it's very expensive kidding... but I think a big part of users also use Daz Studio to their professional jobs!
    If you use your arts professionally, and you have a great demand, outsourcing the render process would be a big deal!

  • Silent WinterSilent Winter Posts: 3,722
    juliano.cruz_97bea1265e said:
    Sevrin said:

    Not the Daz official render server, but close!

    http://www.jacktomalin.com/iray/

    Yes, it's something like that!!!!
    A Daz official with tons of machines would be better, but is very good to know there is solution for that already!
    Thank you to share!

    Jack works for Daz (he runs the PC+ club) - he's got a great setup for server rendering. I don't think Daz have any plans to start their own 'official' render farms but you should know they don't generally read the forums (PAs do so we might see a product suggestion we can work on, but this suggestion is more for Daz only). You could try the 'Contact Us' form and submitting the idea to Daz (though I don't think there'd be any advantage over just using Jack's service).

  • juliano.cruz_97bea1265ejuliano.cruz_97bea1265e Posts: 76
    Silent Winter said:
    juliano.cruz_97bea1265e said:
    Sevrin said:

    Not the Daz official render server, but close!

    http://www.jacktomalin.com/iray/

    Yes, it's something like that!!!!
    A Daz official with tons of machines would be better, but is very good to know there is solution for that already!
    Thank you to share!

    Jack works for Daz (he runs the PC+ club) - he's got a great setup for server rendering. I don't think Daz have any plans to start their own 'official' render farms but you should know they don't generally read the forums (PAs do so we might see a product suggestion we can work on, but this suggestion is more for Daz only). You could try the 'Contact Us' form and submitting the idea to Daz (though I don't think there'd be any advantage over just using Jack's service).

    Hi Silent Winter! Thank you for your advice! I'll try 'Contact Us'.
    I also intend to test Jack's services.

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