Swarm

This page provides information about the Swarm component in V-Ray for Grasshopper.

Overview

The Swarm component implements a web-based distributed rendering system. It’s a simple yet powerful way to split your rendering across multiple computers.

Right-click on the Swarm component > Admin page… to open the V-Ray Swarm web interface of the current Coordinator machine. Alternatively, type in the IP address of the current Coordinator machine on the default port 1113 to access. This allows you to see the swarm render node machines available for rendering jobs in your network. You can see which of the render node machines are connecting to the particular machine that is casting out the render to the Swarm by the IP address next to its status. This interface also allows you to configure the render node machines, tag them, or monitor their resource utilization while rendering.

Input Parameters

Enabled (Boolean) - Enables or disables the swarm session.
Tags (Tag) - Tags the nodes selected to participate in the rendering. If left empty, all nodes participate.
Worker (Boolean) - Specifies whether this machine participates in the rendering as a node on the swarm network.