To start a rendering using Flamingo nXt farm, instead of using the standard Render command, use the Render Farm (Flamingo nXt 5.0 menu > Render Farm).If you are planning to use third-party render farm software, some of these procedures will be different. The following procedures apply to the Render Farm included with Flamingo nXt.

The Farm monitor (nXtFarmMonitor64.exe)Īn applet that shows you the state of your render jobs and provides some simple control tools.įor advanced installations, the nXt Render Farm software lets you work with third-party render managers.

Rendering in this manner allows you to use more computer power for lengthy tasks but does not allow interacting with the rendering as it progresses. Normally, render farms proceed silently without displaying the renderings on a monitor as they progress. The nXt Render Farm includes two Applications: The Farmer render client (nXtFarmer64.exe)Ī small program that runs on each network rendering client and waits for jobs to be generated. The shared folder should have at least 20GB of available storage. The folder does not have to be assigned to the same name on each client, but each client does need full read/write/delete access to the folder. It can be a folder on the master machine or on a network. This is normally a shared network folder. The key to a functional render farm is a shared folder to which the master machine and all the client computers can access. To add more client computers, purchase the nXt Render Farm license from. The Render Farm is free for up to two client computers.

Additional purchased render farm clients.(The nXt Render Farm comes with two free copies of the client software.) A computer with Rhino and Flamingo nXt.Neither Rhino nor Flamingo nXt is required on the computers used only as render farm clients. The Flamingo nXt Render Farm uses the power of several computers to render single images, batch jobs of multiple images or view-based animations.

Rhino rendering program