V-Ray Swarm Rendering

This page provides information on the V-Ray Swarm distributed rendering service.

Overview

V-Ray Swarm is the new V-Ray Distributed Rendering manager. The next evolution of V-Ray Distributed Rendering offers a number of features that make rendering with V-Ray even faster. Currently, V-Ray Swarm is available in V-Ray for SketchUp, V-Ray for Rhino, and V-Ray for Revit. Its interface is also accessible by a web browser.

For more detailed information on how to use V-Ray Swarm please refer to the Distributed Rendering page.

Features

All that is needed to dedicate a machine as a V-Ray Distributed Rendering server is to install and run V-Ray Swarm on it. V-Ray Swarm discovers and adds machines for rendering, handles the installation of V-Ray Standalone builds on each machine, starts and stops the rendering process, monitors CPU, RAM, and GPU resources per system, and deploys the configuration of V-Ray on all V-Ray Swarm machines with a single click. V-Ray Swarm makes V-Ray Distributed Rendering easier than ever.

The new features that V-Ray Swarm adds to V-Ray Distributed Rendering are:

• Ensures every machine is rendering with the same version of V-Ray.
• Provides the ability to monitor and manage the entire V-Ray Swarm network through a web interface.
• Monitors the state of each computer to make sure that V-Ray is active and ready, and restarts V-Ray if necessary.
• Automatically discovers machines running V-Ray Swarm over the network, eliminating the need to manually input the IP address/hostname of each render server machine.
• Automatically or manually assigns a computer to be the one that controls and manages V-Ray Swarm on the render node machines.

V-Ray Swarm 2.0.15