UX for V0.3.0 of Crowdrender - Better distributed rendering in Blender (hell yea!)
After three years of rendering with a weird hidden render engine in Blender, we've finally changed our dirty ways and integrated properly with Blender's RenderEngine API. This is far more streamlined internally and already feels far more intuitive and slick than the old method.
The rendering was done using the latest update to our addon. The client machine was a MacBook pro and was disabled from rendering cause..... ehh.... its a laptop? The rendering was done on a PC with an RTX2070 Super card. The render engine was eevee. This was awesome since the MacBook took a ton more time to render this on its CPU.
The fastest render was 4.56 seconds on the RTX2070 card :)
For more info you can read this short article on the why's and ins and outs, or you can just head to our website and get some info on when this new version will be available - https://www.crowd-render.com/single-p...
Crowdrender, in case you don't know, was created to make distributed rendering, or network rendering much easier. Traditionally this kind of software is used to build a render farm, which lets you render stills and animations much faster by using multiple computers at once.
It installs with just one click. Setup is simple on a local network, with the only config you need to do is make sure you let blender allow incoming connections if you have a firewall enabled. Pretty much everything else is automated. You will have to pack external assets or setup them up on a NAS/shared folder in your LAN though.
You can create a free account and download Crowdrender here - https://www.crowd-render.com.au/download
Crowdrender is supported by the Blender community, with a currently growing number of supporters, you can learn more and support us here - https://www.crowd-render.com/crowdfun...
A big shout out to @OfficialMwave for supplying us the PC including its RTX card, this made it possible to develop and test features like the ones we're developing now.
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