New release of render farm management software features the RenderPal V2 Submitter, frame checking improvements, idle clients shutdown, and more.
Shoran Software has announced a new release of RenderPal V2. RenderPal V2 is a powerful, feature-rich, yet easy to use Render Farm Manager for Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max and Softimage/XSI, Maxon Cinema 4D, The Foundry’s Nuke and MODO, Adobe After Effects and many more.
The eleventh point release of RenderPal V2 features a completely new component, the RenderPal V2 Submitter, and brings several nice improvements.
Here’s what’s new in RenderPal V2 2.11.0:
- The RenderPal V2 Submitter
The RenderPal V2 Submitter is a graphical utility to quickly submit new net jobs to the RenderPal V2 Server; it is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX. The submitter is also used for directly submitting net jobs from within renderers and compositing applications, superseding our previous submitter scripts. This initial release ships with scripts for: 3ds Max, After Effects, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Modo, Nuke, SketchUp and Softimage. - Frame checking improvements
The image name for frame checking now allows you to directly enter the desired padding, either by using one or more # signs or by using the well-known %0?d syntax. - Idle clients shutdown
The automatic idle clients shutdown will now also be turned off once the current time is no longer scheduled, making this feature more intuitive and useful. - Clients that lack a renderer
If a client reports that there is no executable set for a renderer, the client will now be immediately removed from the corresponding net job and its error count won’t be increased. - New renderer
This release brings out-of-the-box-support for a frequently requested renderer: SketchUp. The SketchUp support is still somewhat preliminary and so might be a little rough around the edges - feedback is highly welcome!
The company has also written a small introductory tutorial for new SketchUp users on how to set up a SketchUp render farm with RenderPal V2.
This release offers several other improvements, including an improved renderer license management; full release notes can be found at www.renderpal.com.
Source: Shoran Software
Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network, Jennifer Wolfe has worked in the Media & Entertainment industry as a writer and PR professional since 2003.
