Official Proceedure for Net rendering in OSX?

[blewis]

Hey guys, I am moving from a PC to the Mac. (I hear its a cool time to switch) but have a few questions

I am trying to setup Cinema and VFC for my network to render but am wondering whats the proceedure.

Net is working and all clients are render Vray scenes however I have issues when loading common irradiance maps and proxies.

When I use a path to a network drive it works, but my MybookWorld Drive is rather slow and so is the weakest link.

I wonder if its possible to a common folder on each machine's root drive and sync the folders? This would help the speed issue. _Help how are you guys doing it?

[shane]

That's how I roll. I copy all of my irradiance maps to a temp folder in the same location on every clients hard drive. Something like macintosh HD /Temp then in Cinema I point to the /Temp/your-irradianceMap. Vray will load the maps form the clients local hard drive. Even with a very fast server and network vray is very slow to load the maps across a network. Works great.

-Shane

[blewis]

The second I add a 'local' path to proxies the Net client crashes.
They do work with the network drive...but slow, perhaps I am putting the wrong path.

Does it matter that each machine's drive has a different name?
When I set it the path is now /VRTempfiles/proxyname.vrmesh
That seems fair to me. What do you think shane?

[shane]

I keep all of my proxies on a network drive. I have never tried to do the local trick on them. I have not noticed a slowdown with proxies only irradiance maps. The name of the machines local drive should not matter. It doesn't show up in the path. One thing I have tried that does not work over Net is if the proxy is your Cinema scene. Works locally but not with Net render. You may be stuck keeping proxies on a network drive.

-Shane

[blewis]

OK thats reasonable...
I just wish I bought a faster network drive now! This is clearly a backup only drive. (probably 5400rpm)