Render Farm Setup Tutorial for Blender | Part 2 of 2 - Configure Windows and Blender for Rendering
(Part 2 of 2) This tutorial shows how to build a render farm at home using old computers and a few new graphics cards. This video shows you all Windows settings to enable for sharing files. Then, it shows how to share the file folders. Then, I explain how to use Remote Desktop Connection to control the render machines from my workstation. Finally, we cover some render settings and start an example render.
Please ask questions if needed so I can help and we can learn more from each other.
Blender System Requirements:
https://www.blender.org/download/requ...
Windows 10 Create Installation Media (for making the bootable usb stick):
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:33 Network Diagram
3:47 Windows Settings
4:00 Rename the PC
4:37 Enable Remote Desktop Connection
6:36 Changing Advanced Sharing Settings
7:45 Share a File Folder to the Network
10:39 Mapping a Drive to the Shared Folder
13:30 Connect to Nodes with Remote Desktop Connection
15:50 Preparing to Render
16:50 Configure Blender to Render from the Shared File
21:15 Starting the Render the Nodes
25:30 Look! It is working Finally!
26:08 Conclusions and Takeaways
27:07 Comment with Questions!
This is Part 2 of 2.
Part 1 focusses on selecting proper PC hardware for the build and how to install Windows 10 Pro on the render workers.
Part 2 covers software settings for sharing files and networking, and how to configure Blender for distributed rendering.
It is a long video, but I did not want to speed through it or skip steps to save time. Thank you for watching! I hope this is helpful.
I usually post 3D art videos. Come check it out if you feel like it!