Re: Network Rendering w/ MR on 4 computers is slower than on
one local

joed8349

>>Also, I guess network rendering doesn't help much when rendering a still
image, does it?<<

I do a lot of still image rendering with MR satellites, and it really helps on
those big renders, for smaller renders I think the overhead will kill any
performance gain. On a 15 min render it should speed things up.

>>3. I was hoping to use network rendering to make test renders. I would
like to be working in Maya on my computer, test render a still image using the
network (render on the 8 processor machine) while continuing to work on the
scene file at my computer.
I don't think this is possible though.<<

yes this is possible, in your render options in the render menu select
"render on network machines", and deselect "render on local
machine"