ButterflyNetRender: Network rendering controller
ButterflyNetRender 7 now includes the OSX Controller - plus the Large core feature, node Grouping, Priority and Split Frames. You can speed up rendering time for a single frame by distributing it across more than 1 rendernode (ie: slice the frame into parts and ButterflyNetRender 7 will automatically reassemble after the parts are complete).
ButterflyNetRender 7 features an Automatic setup wizard for LightWave 3D, Modo and Messiah which really takes the pain out of setting up a render farm. Setup of other application types is also easy: simply select the location of the render executable and the setup template contains all the default settings required. These settings can also be modified if desired.
Applications
ButterflyNetRender 7 is comprised of 2 applications:
- ButterflyNetRender - Controller
- Installed on one machine and used the Control the Rendering scenes. It will communicate with the BNR Clients
- ButterflyNetRender - Client
- Installed on all the machines that will be used for 'rendering' the animation frames. The BNR Client can have 1 or more 'rendernodes' that can be assigned to a CPU on the machine.
Features
- BNR OSX Controller now available
- Modern User Interface with core features updated.
- Web Based UI system with the ability for custom changes by the user (HTML5, CSS).
- C++ engine rewritten with updated toolset and the ability for future expansion.
- LightWave 2015.1 and 2015.2 support
- LightWave 11.6
- LightWave Automatic system setup
- Read LightWave scene settings
- Frame/Thumbnail Viewer
- Arbitrary Frames
- Realtime RenderNode Feedback
- Rendernode CPU & RAM usage information
- Wake on Lan - Power saver feature
- Native 64bit Controller! - (includes 32bit version if install on a 32bit OS)
- Post Process commands (run custom commands after a scene is complete)
- View Frame Directory/ Frame preview
- LUA script language support for Scene reading, Pre and Post scene processing (Python support soon...)
- MODO automatic system setup
- Maya Support
- Maya MR Support
- Maya RenderMan Support
- MODO, Messiah:Studio Support
- 3DSMax Support
- Kray, XSI, VRay Support
- After Effects, Nuke, Digital Fusion Support
- Custom Scene type Support (any command line render application)
- RenderNode Groups and Collections
- RenderNode Priorities
- Read Maya Scene file settings
- LightWave Support
- MODO Scene file settings
- XSI Scene file settings
- XSI Frame verify
- bnr_submit.exe - Command line program to add scenes into BNR