How to Setup Multiple Computers to Render?

By Scott Fisher

Often times in design studio, the students are told to design a building. In the assignment it usually includes floor plans, elevations, sections, site plan(s), details, and renderings. Out of all these usually the rendering takes the longest. In these simple steps you can render in 3Ds Max in shorter amount of time than any other rendering method.

Step 1 Start up as many computers as you have available (must all be 64 bit)
Step 2 Connect all computers to a network (up to 10 computers will work)
Step 3 Go to Start, all programs,
Step 4 Chaos group, V-Ray Adv for 3dsmax 20.. for x64, distributed rendering
Step 5 Click on distributed rendering then right click on Launch V-Ray Spawner
Step 6 Click Run as administrator
Step 7 Repeat steps 2-4 on all computers
Step 8 Open file on original computer
Step 9 Go to render setup
Step 10 Load any V-Ray presets
Step 11 Go to Settings tab, V-Ray:: System
Step 12 Under Distributed Rendering click settings
Step 13 Click add server (here you enter IP address for all other computers)
Step 14 Go to another computer and click start, and in the search box type “CMD” enter, now type “IPCONFIG” enter
Step 15 Look through all the network codes and find “IPv4 Address”
Step 16 Copy and paste the IPv4 Address to the “Add Render Server” on the original computer then click “OK”
Step 17 Repeat Steps 14-16 on all computers that are helping you render
Step 18 Click Resolve Servers once all computer IP address have been entered
Step 19 Click “OK”
Step 20 RENDER (Once rendering has started the V-Ray messages will tell you when each computer has started rendering)