Using Crowdrender V0.4.2 with Blender 3.0 and 3.1 and NOT crashing!
Soooo, James recently updated Crowdrender to support distributed rendering for Cycles X in Blender 3.0 and 3.1. However, there is a crash and this video shows how to work around it and what we're doing to fix it permanently.
In case you didn't know Crowdrender is software that helps you render much faster with Blender's rendering engine cycles and with the new update V0.4.2, Cycles X in Blender 3.0 and 3.1. It does this by what is known as network or distributed rendering which is essentially giving part of the rendering work to more than one computer, allowing you to render much faster than with just one computer (depending on the computers, don't expect an old laptop to make a meaningful difference if you are adding it to a pool containing PC's with 3090s).
During testing of V0.4.2, it became clear that Blender was crashing when rendering, but only when the local/client/master machine. James quickly tracked this down to a recent change in Blender's source code.
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