Butterfly NetRender 7Professional is a popular Animation Network Rendering Software Manager for Lightwave, Maya, Messiah Studio, MODO, 3DS Max, XSI, Digital Fusion, After Effects, CINEMA 4D and more.
Butterfly NetRender 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 Butterfly NetRender7 will automatically reassemble after the parts are complete).
Butterfly NetRender 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
Butterfly NetRender 7is 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
Specs
In order to work properly, your copy of Butterfly NetRender 7 — Professional 16-Node requires Messiah Studio, Digital Fusion, Softimage and/or
Autodesk 3ds Max 3ds Max: Realize your most complex, creative ideas.
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Autodesk Maya Maya 1-Year: Begin your journey into the world of 3D graphics and animation.
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MAXON Cinema 4D R21 Cinema 4D: The fastest and easiest-to-use advanced 3D animation solution. Includes all Studio, Prime, Broadcast, Visualize and BodyPaint features!
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NewTek LightWave 3D LightWave 3D: Award winning, production-proven VFX and Animation tools for 3D artists.
